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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 591
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 591, on page 1, by
3 replacing lines 12 through 28 with the following:
4 "(b) The court issuing a warrant may authorize the
5 officer executing the warrant to make entry without first
6 knocking and announcing his or her office if it finds, based
7 upon a showing of specific facts, the existence of the
8 following exigent circumstances:
9 (1) That the officer reasonably believes that if
10 notice were given a weapon would be used:
11 (i) against the officer executing the search
12 warrant; or
13 (ii) against another person.
14 (2) That if notice were given there is an imminent
15 "danger" that evidence will be destroyed.
16 Upon a finding by the judge issuing the warrant that any of
17 the following exigent circumstances exist, the judge may
18 order the person executing the warrant to make entry without
19 first knocking and announcing his office:
20 (1) the presence of firearms or explosives in the
21 building in an area where they are accessible to any
22 occupant;
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1 (2) the prior possession of firearms by an occupant of
2 the building within a reasonable period of time;
3 (3) the presence of surveillance equipment, such as
4 video cameras, or alarm systems, inside or outside of the
5 building;
6 (4) the presence of steel doors, wooden planking,
7 crossbars, dogs, or other similar means of preventing or
8 impeding entry into the building.".