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.