By: Nixon S.B. No. 322 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to extensions of orders for pen registers or trap and 1-2 trace devices. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 2, Article 18.21, Code of 1-5 Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (f) An order for the installation and utilization of a pen 1-7 register or trap and trace device is valid for not more than 30 1-8 days after the date the device is installed or after 10 days after 1-9 the date the order is entered, whichever occurs first, unless prior 1-10 to the expiration of the order the attorney for the state applies 1-11 for and obtains from the court an extension of the order. The 1-12 period of extension may not exceed 30 days for each extension 1-13 granted, except that, with the consent of the subscriber or 1-14 customer of the service on which the pen register or trap and trace 1-15 device is utilized, the court may extend an order for a period not 1-16 to exceed one year. 1-17 SECTION 2. 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, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.