Bill Text: TX HB1131 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication criminal offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1131 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1131-Comm_Sub.html
  88R3758 CJD-D
 
  By: Spiller H.B. No. 1131
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a
  search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested
  for certain intoxication criminal offenses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 18.01(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (j)  A [Any] magistrate who is an attorney licensed by this
  state or a justice of the peace may issue a search warrant under
  Article 18.02(a)(10) to collect a blood specimen from a person who:
               (1)  is arrested for an offense under Section 49.04,
  49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code; and
               (2)  refuses to submit to a breath or blood alcohol
  test.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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