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Senate Bill 1735 |
Senate Author: West |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Branch |
Senate Bill 1735 amends Education Code provisions relating to a mutual assistance agreement between a private institution of higher education and one or more local municipalities in which the institution's peace officers and the municipal peace officers assist each other in enforcing state or local law. The bill removes the requirement for a fall enrollment of more than 10,000 students at the institution; requires that property under the institution's control and jurisdiction be contiguous to or located within a home-rule municipality that has a population of 1.18 million or more and be located predominantly in a county that has a total area of less than 1,000 square miles, rather than contiguous to or located within a municipality with a population of more than one million; and clarifies the designated geographic area in which campus peace officers are authorized to assist municipal officers if the agreement is entered into with the home-rule municipality that elects all or part of the municipal governing body from election districts.
The bill amends provisions relating to the authority of a private, nonprofit medical corporation in a municipality with a population of 1.18 million or more to employ and commission security personnel for an institution of higher education or a private postsecondary education institution located within the corporation's medical complex or for a branch of the corporation. The bill extends this authority to the parent corporation of such a medical corporation and to a corporation that provides security services for another medical complex legally affiliated with or owned, leased, managed, or controlled by the medical corporation or parent corporation. The bill authorizes such corporations to employ and commission police officers as well as security personnel and expands the jurisdiction of an officer so commissioned to include any location in which the officer is performing duties assigned to the officer by the private, nonprofit medical corporation or its parent corporation if those duties are consistent with the mission of the medical corporation or its parent corporation and are being performed within a county in which the medical corporation or its parent corporation owns real property.