By: Hunter, Bob H.B. No. 266
73R1627 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to security officers for medical corporations in certain
1-3 municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.214, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 51.214. SECURITY OFFICERS FOR MEDICAL CORPORATIONS IN
1-8 CERTAIN CITIES. In any city with a population of 100,000
1-9 <1,200,000> or more, according to the most recent federal census,
1-10 the governing board of a private, nonprofit medical corporation
1-11 that provides security services for institutions of higher
1-12 education and other entities located within the same medical
1-13 complex, or that provides security services for a branch of that
1-14 medical complex, may employ and commission security personnel to
1-15 enforce the law of this state at the medical complex and its
1-16 branches. An officer commissioned under this section has all the
1-17 powers, privileges, and immunities of a peace officer while on the
1-18 property under the control and jurisdiction of the medical
1-19 corporation or while otherwise performing his assigned duties. An
1-20 officer assigned to duty and commissioned shall take and file the
1-21 oath required of peace officers and shall execute and file a good
1-22 and sufficient bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to the governor,
1-23 with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that he
1-24 will fairly, impartially, and faithfully perform the duties
2-1 required of him by law. The bond may be sued on from time to time
2-2 in the name of the person injured until the whole amount is
2-3 recovered.
2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.