By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1128
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the minimum population requirements for allowing peace
1-2 officers to enforce state and federal hazardous materials
1-3 regulations and state and federal motor carriers safety
1-4 regulations.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 139, Uniform Act
1-7 Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-8 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-9 (f) Any peace officer of any city having a population of
1-10 100,000 <300,000> or more, certified for this purpose by the
1-11 Director, may detain any motor vehicle on any street or highway
1-12 within such city subject to this section or to any regulation
1-13 adopted in accordance with this section. Such certification
1-14 procedures including the proper training of said officers shall be
1-15 determined by the Department. The Department by rule may establish
1-16 uniform standards for enforcement of this section and regulations
1-17 adopted in accordance with this section by participating cities.
1-18 The Department by rule may establish reasonable fees sufficient to
1-19 recover from a city the costs of training and certifying peace
1-20 officers of the city under this section. A city engaging in
1-21 enforcement measures under this section shall pay all costs
1-22 relating to those measures and shall not be considered a party to
1-23 any federal grant agreement, or a grantee under any federal grant
2-1 to the Department, related to this section. Enforcement measures
2-2 conducted by a city under this subsection shall not be considered
2-3 enforcement measures of the Department for purposes of maintaining
2-4 levels of effort required pursuant to any federal grant.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.