By: Seliger, Huffman  S.B. No. 1047
         (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2021; March 18, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 12, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0; April 12, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood
  specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 18.067 to read as follows:
         Art. 18.067.  EXECUTION OF WARRANT FOR BLOOD SPECIMEN IN
  INTOXICATION OFFENSE. Notwithstanding any other law, a warrant
  issued under Article 18.02(a)(10) to collect a blood specimen from
  a person suspected of committing an intoxication offense under
  Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal
  Code, may be executed:
               (1)  in any county adjacent to the county in which the
  warrant was issued; and
               (2)  by any law enforcement officer authorized to make
  an arrest in the county of execution.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a search warrant issued on or after the effective date of this
  Act. A search warrant issued before the effective date of this Act
  is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant was issued,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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