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2021 SESSION
SB 1475 Search warrants; date and time of issuance, exceptions.
Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Execution of search warrants. Provides that a search warrant for the search of any place of abode shall be executed by initial entry of the abode only in the daytime hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. unless (i) a judge or a magistrate, if a judge is not available, authorizes the execution of such search warrant at another time for good cause shown by particularized facts in an affidavit; or (ii) prior to the issuance of the search warrant, law-enforcement officers lawfully entered and secured the place to be searched and remained at such place continuously. The bill also provides that a law-enforcement officer shall make reasonable efforts to locate a judge before seeking authorization to execute the warrant at another time, unless the warrant was issued after 5 p.m., in which case the law-enforcement officer may seek such authorization from a magistrate without first making reasonable efforts to locate a judge.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21103588D pdf
- 02/01/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21104245D-S1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/22/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21103588D
- 01/22/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/01/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21104245D-S1
- 02/01/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21104245D-S1
- 02/03/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1475S1
- 02/03/21 Senate: Emergency clause added
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote