By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 153
       73R1971 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the continuation of laws on the interception and use of
    1-3  wire, oral, or electronic communications.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 18.20, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 18 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 18.  This article expires September 1, 2005, and shall
    1-8  not be in force on and after that date.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 16.02, Penal Code, is amended by adding
   1-10  Subsection (j) to read as follows:
   1-11        (j)  This section expires September 1, 2005, and shall not be
   1-12  in force on and after that date.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The title of Chapter 16, Penal Code, is amended
   1-14  to read as follows:
   1-15   CHAPTER 16.  CRIMINAL INSTRUMENTS AND OFFENSES INVOLVING CERTAIN
   1-16      COMMUNICATIONS <INTERCEPTION OF WIRE OR ORAL COMMUNICATION>
   1-17        SECTION 4.  Section 1, Chapter 587, Acts of the 69th
   1-18  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is repealed.
   1-19        SECTION 5.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
   1-20  section, this Act takes effect immediately.
   1-21        (b)  Section 3 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
   1-22        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
    2-4  terms, and it is so enacted.