Bill Text: TX HB4357 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to requiring a search warrant to obtain or use certain purchase information in a criminal action.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-01 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB4357 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB4357-Introduced.html

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89R15755 CJD-D
By: Shofner H.B. No. 4357

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring a search warrant to obtain or use certain
purchase information in a criminal action.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Article 18.25 to read as follows:
Art. 18.25. WARRANT REQUIRED FOR USE OF CERTAIN PURCHASE
INFORMATION. (a) In this section, "firearm" has the meaning
assigned by Section 46.01, Penal Code.
(b) A search warrant is required to obtain or use, in a
criminal investigation or prosecution, a record of a bank account
or credit or debit card relating to the sale of a firearm or
ammunition.
(c) A search warrant under this article may be issued only
by a judge, including a judge of a statutory county court, in the
same judicial district as the site of the law enforcement agency
that employs the peace officer who is applying for the warrant.
(d) A judge may issue a search warrant under this article
only on the application of a peace officer. An application must be
in writing and signed and sworn to or affirmed before the judge.
The application must:
(1) state the name, department, agency, and address of
the applicant;
(2) identify the record to be searched for and seized;
(3) state the name of the individual whose activity is
described by the record;
(4) state the judicial district in which the law
enforcement agency that employs the peace officer is located; and
(5) state the facts and circumstances that provide the
applicant with probable cause to believe that:
(A) criminal activity has been, is, or will be
committed; and
(B) the record is likely to produce evidence in
the investigation of the criminal activity described in Paragraph
(A).
(e) A record acquired without a search warrant under this
article is not admissible in a criminal action.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.