1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 1349
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to subsequent evidentiary search warrants.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Article 18.01, Code of Criminal
1-11 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (d) Only the specifically described property or items set
1-13 forth in a search warrant issued under Subdivision (10) of Article
1-14 18.02 of this code or property or items enumerated in Subdivisions
1-15 (1) through (9) of Article 18.02 of this code may be seized.
1-16 <Subsequent search warrants may not be issued pursuant to
1-17 Subdivision (10) of Article 18.02 of this code to search the same
1-18 person, place, or thing subjected to a prior search under
1-19 Subdivision (10) of Article 18.02 of this code.>
1-20 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-21 regardless of whether a search warrant under Subdivision (10),
1-22 Article 18.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, was issued before, on,
1-23 or after the effective date of this Act.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-25 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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