The Texas bill would require state law enforcement agencies to get a warrant for all e-mails regardless of the age of the e-mail. The bill passed both houses of the state legislature earlier this year without a single “nay” vote. It would make Texas law more privacy-conscious than the much-maligned 1986-era Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) The bill would give Texans more privacy over their inbox to shield against state-level snooping. Of course, ECPA remains federal law of the land in Texas and in all the other 49 states.”]