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.