83R5827 GCB-F
 
  By: Fletcher H.B. No. 1322
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the sealing of applications and orders for the
  installation and use of mobile tracking devices in certain law
  enforcement investigations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 14, Article 18.21, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (e-1) to read as
  follows:
         (e-1)  The district judge shall seal any documents submitted
  to the court under this section, and any order or extension of an
  order issued under this section, until the period authorized by the
  order and extension expires.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an application for a mobile tracking device that is submitted on
  or after the effective date of this Act. An application for a mobile
  tracking device that is submitted before the effective date of this
  Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was
  submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.