1-1 By: Munoz (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 2477
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 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 4, Nays 2; 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 commissioning certain magistrates as peace officers.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-20 amended to read as follows:
1-21 Art. 2.12. WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS. The following are peace
1-22 officers:
1-23 (1) sheriffs and their deputies;
1-24 (2) constables and deputy constables;
1-25 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated
1-26 city, town, or village;
1-27 (4) rangers and officers commissioned by the Public
1-28 Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public
1-29 Safety;
1-30 (5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal
1-31 district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;
1-32 (6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic
1-33 Beverage Commission;
1-34 (7) each member of an arson investigating unit
1-35 commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;
1-36 (8) officers commissioned under Subchapter E, Chapter
1-37 51, Education Code;
1-38 (9) officers commissioned by the <State Purchasing
1-39 and> General Services Commission;
1-40 (10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the
1-41 Parks and Wildlife Commission;
1-42 (11) airport police officers commissioned by a city
1-43 with a population of more than one million, according to the most
1-44 recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves
1-45 commercial air carriers;
1-46 (12) airport security personnel commissioned as peace
1-47 officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this
1-48 state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that
1-49 operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;
1-50 (13) municipal park and recreational patrolmen and
1-51 security officers;
1-52 (14) security officers commissioned as peace officers
1-53 by the State Treasurer;
1-54 (15) officers commissioned by a water control and
1-55 improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;
1-56 (16) officers commissioned by a board of trustees
1-57 under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-58 1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
1-59 (17) investigators commissioned by the Texas State
1-60 Board of Medical Examiners;
1-61 (18) officers commissioned by the board of managers of
1-62 the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital
1-63 District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under
1-64 Section 281.057, Health and Safety Code;
1-65 (19) county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter
1-66 E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;
1-67 (20) investigators employed by the Texas Racing
1-68 Commission;
2-1 (21) officers commissioned by the State Board of
2-2 Pharmacy;
2-3 (22) officers commissioned by the governing body of a
2-4 metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141,
2-5 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
2-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation
2-7 authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
2-8 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
2-9 Civil Statutes);
2-10 (23) officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed
2-11 Rail Authority;
2-12 (24) investigators commissioned by the attorney
2-13 general under Section 402.009, Government Code; <and>
2-14 (25) security officers and investigators commissioned
2-15 as peace officers under the State Lottery Act; and
2-16 (26) magistrates listed in Article 2.09 of this code,
2-17 other than mayors, recorders, and magistrates appointed by judges
2-18 of district courts or criminal district courts.
2-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-26 * * * * *
2-27 Austin,
2-28 Texas
2-29 May 25, 1993
2-30 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-31 President of the Senate
2-32 Sir:
2-33 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
2-34 No. 2477, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-35 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-36 that it do pass and be printed.
2-37 Whitmire,
2-38 Chairman
2-39 * * * * *
2-40 WITNESSES
2-41 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2477.