By West                                                S.B. No. 662
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the admissibility at trial of certain evidence obtained
 1-3     by a law enforcement officer.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 38.23, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Evidence obtained by a law enforcement officer as a
 1-8     result of the officer's warrantless arrest or detention of an
 1-9     individual is validly obtained for purposes of this article only if
1-10     a reasonable law enforcement officer under the same circumstances
1-11     would have arrested or detained the individual.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-13     to evidence obtained as a result of an arrest or detention that
1-14     occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.  Evidence
1-15     obtained as a result of an arrest or detention that occurs before
1-16     the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when
1-17     the arrest or detention occurred, and the former law is continued
1-18     in effect for that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.