1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 1158
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the use of a caller identification service by
1-9 commercial mobile radio service providers licensed by the Federal
1-10 Communications Commission.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subdivision (14), Section 1, Article 18.21, Code
1-13 of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (14) "Trap and trace device" means a mechanical or
1-15 electronic device that attaches to a telephone line and is capable
1-16 of recording an incoming electronic or other impulse that
1-17 identifies the originating number of an instrument or device from
1-18 which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted. The term
1-19 does not include a device or telecommunications network used in
1-20 providing <either>: (1) a caller identification service authorized
1-21 by the Public Utility Commission of Texas under Section 87C, Public
1-22 Utility Regulatory Act (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-23 Statutes); <or> (2) the services referenced in Subsection (g),
1-24 Section 87C, Public Utility Regulatory Act (Article 1446c, Vernon's
1-25 Texas Civil Statutes); or (3) a caller identification service
1-26 provided by a commercial mobile radio service provider licensed by
1-27 the Federal Communications Commission.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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