By: Sibley S.B. No. 1158
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the use of a caller identification service by
1-2 commercial mobile radio service providers licensed by the Federal
1-3 Communications Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subdivision (14), Section 1, Article 18.21, Code
1-6 of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (14) "Trap and trace device" means a mechanical or
1-8 electronic device that attaches to a telephone line and is capable
1-9 of recording an incoming electronic or other impulse that
1-10 identifies the originating number of an instrument or device from
1-11 which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted. The term
1-12 does not include a device or telecommunications network used in
1-13 providing <either>: (1) a caller identification service authorized
1-14 by the Public Utility Commission of Texas under Section 87C, Public
1-15 Utility Regulatory Act (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-16 Statutes); <or> (2) the services referenced in Subsection (g),
1-17 Section 87C, Public Utility Regulatory Act (Article 1446c, Vernon's
1-18 Texas Civil Statutes); or (3) a caller identification service
1-19 provided by a commercial mobile radio service provider licensed by
1-20 the Federal Communications Commission.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 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 from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.