By: Wilson H.B. No. 1366
73R5637 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the jurisdiction of a peace officer commissioned by a
1-3 school district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.483, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.483. Campus Security Personnel. (a) The board of
1-8 trustees of any school district may employ campus security
1-9 personnel for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
1-10 subchapter.
1-11 (b) If <and if> the board of trustees authorizes any officer
1-12 to bear arms then they must commission them as peace officers.
1-13 (c) Any officer commissioned under this section is vested
1-14 with all the powers, privileges, and immunities of peace officers
1-15 <while on the property under the control and jurisdiction of the
1-16 district or otherwise in the performance of his duties>.
1-17 (d) Any officer assigned to duty and commissioned shall take
1-18 and file the oath required of peace officers, and shall execute and
1-19 file a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to
1-20 the board of trustees, with two or more good and sufficient
1-21 sureties, conditioned that he will fairly, impartially, and
1-22 faithfully perform all the duties that may be required of him by
1-23 law. The bond may be sued on from time to time in the name of any
1-24 person injured until the whole amount of the bond is recovered.
2-1 (e) Any peace officer commissioned under this section must
2-2 meet all minimum standards for peace officers established by the
2-3 Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education
2-4 within one year of his commission, or his commission shall
2-5 automatically expire.
2-6 SECTION 2. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2-7 amended to read as follows:
2-8 Art. 2.12. Who Are Peace Officers. The following are peace
2-9 officers:
2-10 (1) sheriffs and their deputies;
2-11 (2) constables and deputy constables;
2-12 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated
2-13 city, town, or village;
2-14 (4) rangers and officers commissioned by the Public
2-15 Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public
2-16 Safety;
2-17 (5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal
2-18 district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;
2-19 (6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic
2-20 Beverage Commission;
2-21 (7) each member of an arson investigating unit
2-22 commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;
2-23 (8) officers commissioned under Section 21.483,
2-24 Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code;
2-25 (9) officers commissioned by the State Purchasing and
2-26 General Services Commission;
2-27 (10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the
3-1 Parks and Wildlife Commission;
3-2 (11) airport police officers commissioned by a city
3-3 with a population of more than one million, according to the most
3-4 recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves
3-5 commercial air carriers;
3-6 (12) airport security personnel commissioned as peace
3-7 officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this
3-8 state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that
3-9 operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;
3-10 (13) municipal park and recreational patrolmen and
3-11 security officers;
3-12 (14) security officers commissioned as peace officers
3-13 by the State Treasurer;
3-14 (15) officers commissioned by a water control and
3-15 improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;
3-16 (16) officers commissioned by a board of trustees
3-17 under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,
3-18 1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
3-19 (17) investigators commissioned by the Texas State
3-20 Board of Medical Examiners;
3-21 (18) officers commissioned by the board of managers of
3-22 the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital
3-23 District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under Section
3-24 281.057, Health and Safety Code;
3-25 (19) county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter
3-26 E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;
3-27 (20) investigators employed by the Texas Racing
4-1 Commission;
4-2 (21) officers commissioned by the State Board of
4-3 Pharmacy;
4-4 (22) officers commissioned by the governing body of a
4-5 metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141,
4-6 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
4-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation
4-8 authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
4-9 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
4-10 Civil Statutes);
4-11 (23) officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed
4-12 Rail Authority;
4-13 (24) investigators commissioned by the attorney
4-14 general under Section 402.009, Government Code; and
4-15 (25) security officers and investigators commissioned
4-16 as peace officers under the State Lottery Act.
4-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
4-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-23 passage, and it is so enacted.