73R4292 DRH-D By Carter H.B. No. 1182 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to granting law enforcement authority to special policemen 1-3 of the General Services Administration. 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) A person designated as a special policeman by the 2-4 Federal Protective Services division of the General Services 2-5 Administration under 40 U.S.C. Section 318 or 318d is not a peace 2-6 officer but has the powers of arrest and search and seizure as to 2-7 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.