73R3218 CLG-D By Hernandez, Bailey, et al. H.B. No. 635 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to campus security personnel commissioned as peace 1-3 officers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 2.12. Who Are Peace Officers. The following are peace 1-8 officers: 1-9 (1) sheriffs and their deputies; 1-10 (2) constables and deputy constables; 1-11 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated 1-12 city, town, or village; 1-13 (4) rangers and officers commissioned by the Public 1-14 Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public 1-15 Safety; 1-16 (5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal 1-17 district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices; 1-18 (6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic 1-19 Beverage Commission; 1-20 (7) each member of an arson investigating unit 1-21 commissioned by a city, a county, or the state; 1-22 (8) officers commissioned under Section 21.483, 1-23 Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code; 1-24 (9) officers commissioned by the State Purchasing and 2-1 General Services Commission; 2-2 (10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the 2-3 Parks and Wildlife Commission; 2-4 (11) airport police officers commissioned by a city 2-5 with a population of more than one million, according to the most 2-6 recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves 2-7 commercial air carriers; 2-8 (12) airport security personnel commissioned as peace 2-9 officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this 2-10 state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that 2-11 operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers; 2-12 (13) municipal park and recreational patrolmen and 2-13 security officers; 2-14 (14) security officers commissioned as peace officers 2-15 by the State Treasurer; 2-16 (15) officers commissioned by a water control and 2-17 improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code; 2-18 (16) officers commissioned by a board of trustees 2-19 under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 2-20 1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); 2-21 (17) investigators commissioned by the Texas State 2-22 Board of Medical Examiners; 2-23 (18) officers commissioned by the board of managers of 2-24 the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital 2-25 District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under Section 2-26 281.057, Health and Safety Code; 2-27 (19) county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter 3-1 E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code; 3-2 (20) investigators employed by the Texas Racing 3-3 Commission; 3-4 (21) officers commissioned by the State Board of 3-5 Pharmacy; 3-6 (22) officers commissioned by the governing body of a 3-7 metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141, 3-8 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, 3-9 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation 3-10 authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th 3-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas 3-12 Civil Statutes); 3-13 (23) officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed 3-14 Rail Authority; 3-15 (24) investigators commissioned by the attorney 3-16 general under Section 402.009, Government Code; and 3-17 (25) security officers and investigators commissioned 3-18 as peace officers under the State Lottery Act. 3-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 3-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-25 passage, and it is so enacted.