1-1 By: Carter (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 1182
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993;
1-3 May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to granting law enforcement authority to special policemen
1-18 of the General Services Administration.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-21 amended to read as follows:
1-22 Art. 2.122. SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS. (a) The following named
1-23 criminal investigators of the United States shall not be deemed
1-24 peace officers, but shall have the powers of arrest, search and
1-25 seizure as to felony offenses only under the laws of the State of
1-26 Texas:
1-27 (1) Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
1-28 Investigation;
1-29 (2) Special Agents of the Secret Service;
1-30 (3) Special Agents of United States Customs, excluding
1-31 border patrolmen and custom inspectors;
1-32 (4) Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
1-33 (5) Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
1-34 (6) Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
1-35 (7) Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the
1-36 United States Forest Service;
1-37 (8) Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
1-38 Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
1-39 Internal Revenue Service; and
1-40 (9) Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
1-41 Investigative Service.
1-42 (b) A person designated as a special policeman by the
1-43 Federal Protective Services division of the General Services
1-44 Administration under 40 U.S.C. Section 318 or 318d is not a peace
1-45 officer but has the powers of arrest and search and seizure as to
1-46 any offense under the laws of this state.
1-47 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-54 * * * * *
1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 May 25, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-62 No. 1182, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-63 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-64 that it do pass and be printed.
1-65 Whitmire,
1-66 Chairman
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1182.