Bill Text: TX HB2185 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2185 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a DNA specimen.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2185 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2185-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2185




	AN ACT
	relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a DNA
	specimen.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by adding Article 18.065 to read as follows:
	Art. 18.065. EXECUTION OF WARRANT ISSUED BY DISTRICT JUDGE
	FOR DNA SPECIMEN. (a) A warrant issued by the judge of a district
	court under Article 18.02(10) to collect a DNA specimen from a
	person for the purpose of connecting that person to an offense may
	be executed in any county in this state.
	(b) This article does not apply to a warrant issued by a
	justice of the peace, judge, or other magistrate other than a judge
	of a district court.

	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, 2015.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2185 was passed by the House on May
	12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 124, Nays 16, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 2185 on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 8,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 2185 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 25, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
	1.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor