By Shapiro S.B. No. 918
77R4308 JMG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the attorney general to issue an
1-3 administrative subpoena for certain business records of a
1-4 communications carrier or service.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 15, Article 18.21, Code of Criminal
1-7 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 15. SUBPOENA AUTHORITY. The director of the department
1-9 or the attorney general, or a [the director's] designee of the
1-10 director or the attorney general, may issue an administrative
1-11 subpoena to a communications common carrier or an electronic
1-12 communications service to compel the production of the carrier's or
1-13 service's business records that:
1-14 (1) disclose information about:
1-15 (A) the carrier's or service's customers; or
1-16 (B) users of the services offered by the carrier
1-17 or service; and
1-18 (2) are material to a criminal investigation.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-20 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-21 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-22 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-23 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.