Bill Text: TX SB1021 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to access to certain stored communications of a provider of an electronic communications service or remote computing service in this state pursuant to a warrant issued in another state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-12 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1021 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1021-Introduced.html

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83R2445 GCB-D
By: Davis S.B. No. 1021

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access to certain stored communications of a provider
of an electronic communications service or remote computing service
in this state pursuant to a warrant issued in another state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 4, Article 18.21, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) For purposes of this section, a warrant properly issued
in another state is given full faith and credit in this state, and a
service provider in this state that is required under the warrant to
disclose the contents of a communication must comply with the
warrant in accordance with the provisions of this section as if the
warrant had been issued by a district court in this state.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.