By:  Gallego                                           H.B. No. 320
       73R718 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to granting law enforcement authority to certain law
    1-3  enforcement personnel of the National Park Service.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 2.122.  SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS.  (a)  The following named
    1-8  criminal investigators of the United States shall not be deemed
    1-9  peace officers, but shall have the powers of arrest, search and
   1-10  seizure as to felony offenses only under the laws of the State of
   1-11  Texas:
   1-12              (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
   1-13  Investigation;
   1-14              (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
   1-15              (3)  Special Agents of United States Customs, excluding
   1-16  border patrolmen and custom inspectors;
   1-17              (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
   1-18              (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
   1-19              (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
   1-20              (7)  Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the
   1-21  United States Forest Service;
   1-22              (8)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
   1-23  Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
   1-24  Internal Revenue Service; and
    2-1              (9)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
    2-2  Investigative Service.
    2-3        (b)  Officers and employees of the National Park Service
    2-4  designated as law enforcement personnel under 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1a-6
    2-5  while serving in a national recreation area bordering Mexico are
    2-6  not peace officers, but have the powers of arrest and search and
    2-7  seizure as to any offense under the laws of this state.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.