By Talton                                             H.B. No. 2047
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the admissibility of evidence in criminal cases.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Article 38.23, Code of Criminal
    1-5  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  It is an exception to the provisions of Subsection (a)
    1-7  of this Article that the evidence was obtained by a law enforcement
    1-8  officer in objective good faith reliance upon a warrant issued by a
    1-9  neutral magistrate <based on probable cause>.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The change in the law made by this Act applies
   1-11  only to the admissibility of evidence obtained on or after the
   1-12  effective date of this Act.  The admissibility of evidence obtained
   1-13  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
   1-14  effect when the evidence was obtained, and the former law is
   1-15  continued in effect for this purpose.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.