Bills › 88th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill provides that when the director of the department of natural resources or the director’s officers or any peace officer seizes wildlife possessed or taken illegally, or seizes property used to violate a provision of the natural resources laws relating to wildlife, the director or officer must conduct that seizure pursuant to a search warrant. Currently, such seizure may be accomplished without obtaining a search warrant. The bill also provides that a peace officer shall not enter onto private property, without the permission of the owner or occupant of the property, for the purposes of investigating a violation of or enforcing the wildlife laws arising under Code chapter 481A or any other law under the authority of the natural resource commission, without first making an application to the district court of the county where the property is located for the issuance of a search warrant to search that property.
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However, a peace officer may enter onto private property without permission or a search warrant if the officer has probable cause to believe that illegal activity is occurring on that property based on the officer’s own first-hand observations that are made from a location at which the officer is legally authorized to be.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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- HF 189 Requiring search warrants for certain activities under the jurisdiction of the natural res…88th General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
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