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.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-17  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-18  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-19  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-20  before that date.
   1-21        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-22  Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
   1-23  committed, and the former law is continued in effect for this
    2-1  purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.