By:  Carter                                           H.B. No. 2300
       73R5943 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to campus peace officers at the University of North Texas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 105.91(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  Campus peace officers <security personnel> commissioned
    1-7  under Section 51.203 of this code have concurrent jurisdiction with
    1-8  police officers of the City of Denton to enforce all criminal laws,
    1-9  including traffic laws, of the state and all ordinances of the city
   1-10  regulating traffic on any public street running through the
   1-11  property of the university and on any public street immediately
   1-12  adjacent to property owned or occupied and controlled by the
   1-13  university.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Subchapter G, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
   1-15  amended by adding Section 105.941 to read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 105.941.  CAMPUS RESERVE FORCE.  (a)  The board of
   1-17  regents of the University of North Texas may establish a campus
   1-18  reserve force to maintain campus security.  The board of regents
   1-19  may limit the size of the campus reserve force.
   1-20        (b)  The chief of police of the campus peace officers, with
   1-21  the approval of the board of regents, shall appoint reserve law
   1-22  enforcement officers to serve in the campus reserve force at the
   1-23  discretion of the chief of police.
   1-24        (c)  The chief of police may call a member of the campus
    2-1  reserve force to serve at any time the chief of police determines
    2-2  that service is necessary to preserve campus security or to enforce
    2-3  the law.
    2-4        (d)  Except as provided by Subsection (e) of this section, a
    2-5  member of the campus reserve force, during the actual discharge of
    2-6  the member's duties, serves as a peace officer and has the same
    2-7  rights, privileges, and duties as any other peace officer of this
    2-8  state.
    2-9        (e)  A member of the campus reserve force may not carry a
   2-10  weapon unless authorized to carry a weapon by the chief of police.
   2-11        (f)  A member of the campus reserve force may act only in a
   2-12  supplementary capacity to the campus peace officers and may not
   2-13  assume the full-time duties of campus peace officers without
   2-14  complying with the requirements for campus peace officers.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-21  passage, and it is so enacted.