By: Munoz H.B. No. 2477
73R6826 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to commissioning certain magistrates 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;
1-9 (2) constables and deputy constables;
1-10 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated
1-11 city, town, or village;
1-12 (4) rangers and officers commissioned by the Public
1-13 Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public
1-14 Safety;
1-15 (5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal
1-16 district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;
1-17 (6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic
1-18 Beverage Commission;
1-19 (7) each member of an arson investigating unit
1-20 commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;
1-21 (8) officers commissioned under Subchapter E, Chapter
1-22 51, Education Code;
1-23 (9) officers commissioned by the <State Purchasing
1-24 and> General Services Commission;
2-1 (10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the
2-2 Parks and Wildlife Commission;
2-3 (11) airport police officers commissioned by a city
2-4 with a population of more than one million, according to the most
2-5 recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves
2-6 commercial air carriers;
2-7 (12) airport security personnel commissioned as peace
2-8 officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this
2-9 state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that
2-10 operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;
2-11 (13) municipal park and recreational patrolmen and
2-12 security officers;
2-13 (14) security officers commissioned as peace officers
2-14 by the State Treasurer;
2-15 (15) officers commissioned by a water control and
2-16 improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;
2-17 (16) officers commissioned by a board of trustees
2-18 under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,
2-19 1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
2-20 (17) investigators commissioned by the Texas State
2-21 Board of Medical Examiners;
2-22 (18) officers commissioned by the board of managers of
2-23 the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital
2-24 District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under
2-25 Section 281.057, Health and Safety Code;
2-26 (19) county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter
2-27 E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;
3-1 (20) investigators employed by the Texas Racing
3-2 Commission;
3-3 (21) officers commissioned by the State Board of
3-4 Pharmacy;
3-5 (22) officers commissioned by the governing body of a
3-6 metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141,
3-7 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
3-8 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation
3-9 authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
3-10 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
3-11 Civil Statutes);
3-12 (23) officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed
3-13 Rail Authority;
3-14 (24) investigators commissioned by the attorney
3-15 general under Section 402.009, Government Code; <and>
3-16 (25) security officers and investigators commissioned
3-17 as peace officers under the State Lottery Act; and
3-18 (26) magistrates listed in Article 2.09 of this code,
3-19 other than mayors, recorders, and magistrates appointed by judges
3-20 of district courts or criminal district courts.
3-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-27 passage, and it is so enacted.