S.B. No. 1128
                                        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.