Tex. Pen. Code § 9.54

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 9.54 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Limitation on Use of Force By Drone
(a) In this section:
(1) "Autonomous drone" means a drone that operates autonomously through computer software or other programming.
(2) "Drone" and "law enforcement agency" have the meanings assigned by Article 2.33, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the use of force, including deadly force, involving a drone is justified under this subchapter only if:
(1) at the time the use of force occurred, the actor was employed by a law enforcement agency;
(2) the use of force:
(A) would have been justified under another provision of this subchapter; and
(B) did not involve the use of deadly force by means of an autonomous drone; and
(3) before the use of force occurred, the law enforcement agency employing the actor adopted and submitted to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement a policy on the agency's use of force by means of a drone, as required by Article 2.33, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the use of force conformed to the requirements of that policy.

Tex. Pen. Code § 9.54

Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1011,Sec. 2, eff. 6/18/2021.
See Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1011, Sec. 4.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.