Bill Text: TX HB1322 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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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 offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1322 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1322-Introduced.html

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85R2260 GCB-D
By: Burns H.B. No. 1322

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 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(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, 2017.