Search Warrants

State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

DUI; search warrants for blood withdrawals. [SB-1564] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Health ]
DUI; search warrants for blood withdrawals. Provides that an application for a search warrant to perform a blood test on a person suspected of committing a DUI-related offense shall be given priority over pending matters that do not involve an imminent risk to another's health or safety.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas K. Norment Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0673) on 03/20/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Intoxicated drivers; punitive damages for persons injured. [SB-1498] [Alcoholic Beverages ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ]
Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers; evidence. Extends to blood tests performed by the Department of Forensic Science pursuant to a search warrant the rebuttable presumption in civil cases for punitive damages for injuries caused by intoxicated drivers that provides that a person's blood alcohol level demonstrated by a test performed pursuant to the implied consent statute is at least as high as the driver's blood alcohol level at the time of the accident. The bill further establishes a rebuttable presumption applicable in (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Scott A. Surovell Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0671) on 03/20/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions. [SB-1310] [Finance ] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Data Privacy ] [Cybersecurity ] [Public Safety ]
Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions. Provides that a search warrant for records pertaining to a customer of a financial institution, money transmitter, commercial business that provides credit reports, or credit card issuer may be executed in the Commonwealth by hand, mail, commercial delivery service, facsimile, or other electronic means. The bill requires the executing officer to file the warrant in the circuit court clerk's office where the warrant was executed within three days after receiving the ordered records. The (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas K. Norment Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0228) on 02/23/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Search warrants; person subject to arrest. [SB-1260] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Search warrants; person subject to arrest. Authorizes the issuance of a search warrant to search for and seize any person for whom a warrant or process for arrest has been issued. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to HB 2084.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Richard H. Black Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0242) on 02/23/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the issuance of certain search warrants. [HB-1727] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Relating to the issuance of certain search warrants.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Brandon Creighton Effective On 9/1/17 on 06/15/2017

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Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Search warrants; person subject to arrest. [HB-2084] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Search warrants; person subject to arrest. Authorizes the issuance of a search warrant to search for and seize any person for whom a warrant or process for arrest has been issued. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to SB 1260.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele L. Herring Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0233) on 02/23/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication offenses. [HB-1322] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication offenses.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dewayne C. Burns Placed On General State Calendar on 05/11/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions. [HB-1874] [Finance ] [Crime ] [Data Privacy ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions. Provides that a search warrant for records pertaining to a customer of a financial institution, money transmitter, commercial business that provides credit reports, or credit card issuer may be executed in the Commonwealth by hand, mail, commercial delivery service, facsimile, or other electronic means. The bill requires the executing officer to file the warrant in the circuit court clerk's office where the warrant was executed within three days after receiving the ordered records. The (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda L. Pogge Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0641) on 03/20/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the authority of peace officers to conduct certain searches. [HB-814] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the authority of peace officers to conduct certain searches.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jarvis Johnson Read First Time on 02/21/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the seizure of property by a peace officer. [SB-401] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the seizure of property by a peace officer.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Huffman Co-author Authorized on 02/13/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the authority of peace officers to conduct certain searches. [SB-381] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the authority of peace officers to conduct certain searches.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Kirk Watson Co-author Authorized on 02/28/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Motor Vehicles, Department of; disclosure of photographs, search warrant. [HB-1614] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Law Enforcement ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Data Privacy ]
Department of Motor Vehicles; disclosure of photographs; search warrant. Precludes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles from disclosing the photograph of any person contained in the records of the Department to any state or local government department, agency, or instrumentality having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement absent a search warrant.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Robert G. Marshall Left In Transportation on 02/07/2017

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