73R4020 GWK-F
By Harris H.B. No. 1038
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reserve law enforcement officers as peace officers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 2.12. Who Are Peace Officers. The following are peace
1-7 officers:
1-8 (1) sheriffs and their deputies and reserve deputies;
1-9 (2) constables, <and> deputy constables, and reserve
1-10 deputy constables;
1-11 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated
1-12 city, town, or village and reserve municipal officers;
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 Subchapter E, Chapter
1-23 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.
3-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
3-27 Amend H.B. 1038 as follows:
4-1 (1) On page 1, line 8, insert the following after the
4-2 semicolon "who have completed a certified course of training in law
4-3 enforcement."
4-4 (2) On page 1, line 10, insert the following after the
4-5 semicolon "who have completed a certified course of training in law
4-6 enforcement."
4-7 (3) On page 1, line 12, insert the following after the
4-8 semicolon "who have completed a certified course of training in law
4-9 enforcement."
4-10 Yost