Bill Text: TX HB4906 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications by certain peace officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4906-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4906 | ||
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| relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and | ||
| access to certain communications by certain peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 18B.001(1), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (1) "Authorized peace officer" means: | ||
| (A) a sheriff or deputy sheriff; | ||
| (B) a constable or deputy constable; | ||
| (C) a marshal or police officer of a | ||
| municipality; | ||
| (D) a ranger or officer commissioned by the | ||
| Public Safety Commission or the director of the department; | ||
| (E) an investigator of a prosecutor's office; | ||
| (F) a law enforcement agent of the Texas | ||
| Alcoholic Beverage Commission; | ||
| (G) a law enforcement officer commissioned by the | ||
| Parks and Wildlife Commission; | ||
| (H) an enforcement officer appointed by the | ||
| inspector general of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under | ||
| Section 493.019, Government Code; | ||
| (I) an investigator commissioned by the attorney | ||
| general under Section 402.009, Government Code; [ |
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| (J) a member of an arson investigating unit | ||
| commissioned by a municipality, a county, or the state; or | ||
| (K) a peace officer commissioned under Section | ||
| 37.081 or 51.203, Education Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4906 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 14, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4906 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
