S.B. No. 1551




AN ACT

relating to the continuation of certain offenses and certain 
statutes involving the interception of certain communications.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (h), Section 16.02, Penal Code, is 
repealed.          
	SECTION 2.  Section 18, Article 18.20, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1551 passed the Senate on 
April 21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2005, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1551 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, 
Nays 0, two present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor