1-1  By:  Nixon                                             S.B. No. 322
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1995; January 26, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  March 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to extensions of orders for pen registers or trap and
    1-9  trace devices.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 2, Article 18.21, Code of
   1-12  Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (f)  An order for the installation and utilization of a pen
   1-14  register or trap and trace device is valid for not more than 30
   1-15  days after the date the device is installed or after 10 days after
   1-16  the date the order is entered, whichever occurs first, unless prior
   1-17  to the expiration of the order the attorney for the state applies
   1-18  for and obtains from the court an extension of the order.  The
   1-19  period of extension may not exceed 30 days for each extension
   1-20  granted, except that, with the consent of the subscriber or
   1-21  customer of the service on which the pen register or trap and trace
   1-22  device is utilized, the court may extend an order for a period not
   1-23  to exceed one year.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-29  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-30  passage, and it is so enacted.
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