1-1 By: Keel, Hinjosa (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 234 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999; 1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to making certain affidavits required for the issuance of 1-9 search warrants available for public inspection. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Article 18.01(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (b) No search warrant shall issue for any purpose in this 1-14 state unless sufficient facts are first presented to satisfy the 1-15 issuing magistrate that probable cause does in fact exist for its 1-16 issuance. A sworn affidavit setting forth substantial facts 1-17 establishing probable cause shall be filed in every instance in 1-18 which a search warrant is requested. The affidavit is public 1-19 information if executed, and the magistrate's clerk shall make a 1-20 copy of the affidavit available for public inspection in the 1-21 clerk's office during normal business hours. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *