By Nixon S.B. No. 322 74R1204 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to extensions of orders for pen registers or trap and 1-3 trace devices. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(f), Article 18.21, Code of Criminal 1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (f) An order for the installation and utilization of a pen 1-8 register or trap and trace device is valid for not more than 30 1-9 days after the date the device is installed or after 10 days after 1-10 the date the order is entered, whichever occurs first, unless prior 1-11 to the expiration of the order the attorney for the state applies 1-12 for and obtains from the court an extension of the order. The 1-13 period of extension may not exceed 30 days for each extension 1-14 granted, except that with the consent of the subscriber or customer 1-15 of the service on which the pen register or trap and trace device 1-16 is utilized, the court may extend an order for a period not to 1-17 exceed one year. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.