Bill Text: TX HB2300 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to eliminating telegraph transmission as a method to communicate certain information in a criminal case.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2300-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating telegraph transmission as a method to communicate certain information in a criminal case.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2300-Comm_Sub.html
By: Riddle (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) | H.B. No. 2300 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015; | ||
May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to eliminating telegraph transmission as a method to | ||
communicate certain information in a criminal case. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 15.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 15.08. WARRANT MAY BE FORWARDED. A warrant of arrest | ||
may be forwarded by any method that ensures the transmission of a | ||
duplicate of the original warrant, including secure facsimile | ||
transmission or other secure electronic means [ |
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If issued by any magistrate named in Article 15.06, the peace | ||
officer receiving the same shall execute it without delay. If it be | ||
issued by any other magistrate than is named in Article 15.06, the | ||
peace officer receiving the same shall proceed with it to the | ||
nearest magistrate of the peace officer's county, who shall endorse | ||
thereon, in substance, these words: | ||
"Let this warrant be executed in the county of | ||
. . . . . . . . . . .", which endorsement shall be dated and | ||
signed officially by the magistrate making the same. | ||
SECTION 2. Article 15.19(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) If the arrested person fails or refuses to give bail, as | ||
provided in Article 15.18, the arrested person shall be committed | ||
to the jail of the county where the person was arrested. The[ |
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provide notice to the sheriff of the county in which the offense is | ||
alleged to have been committed regarding: | ||
(1) the arrest and commitment, which notice may be | ||
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facsimile transmission or other secure electronic means; and | ||
(2) whether the person was also arrested under a | ||
warrant issued under Section 508.251, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Articles 15.10, 15.11, 15.12, and 15.13, Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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