1-1 By: Capelo (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 3229
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the property, items, persons, or contraband subject to
1-9 seizure under a search warrant.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Article 18.01(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (d) Only the specifically described property or items set
1-14 forth in a search warrant issued under Subdivision (10) of Article
1-15 18.02 of this code or property, [or] items, persons, or contraband
1-16 enumerated in Subdivisions (1) through (9), (11), or (12) of
1-17 Article 18.02 of this code may be seized. A subsequent search
1-18 warrant may be issued pursuant to Subdivision (10) of Article 18.02
1-19 of this code to search the same person, place, or thing subjected
1-20 to a prior search under Subdivision (10) of Article 18.02 of this
1-21 code only if the subsequent search warrant is issued by a judge of
1-22 a district court, a court of appeals, the court of criminal
1-23 appeals, or the supreme court.
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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