1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1128
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 27, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 27, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1128 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the minimum population requirements for allowing peace
1-24 officers to enforce state and federal hazardous materials
1-25 regulations and state and federal motor carriers safety
1-26 regulations.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 139, Uniform Act
1-29 Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-30 Statutes) is amended to read as follows:
1-31 (f) Any peace officer of any city having a population of
1-32 100,000 <300,000> or more, certified for this purpose by the
1-33 Director, may detain any motor vehicle on any street or highway
1-34 within such city subject to this section or to any regulation
1-35 adopted in accordance with this section. Such certification
1-36 procedures including the proper training of said officers shall be
1-37 determined by the Department. The Department by rule may establish
1-38 uniform standards for enforcement of this section and regulations
1-39 adopted in accordance with this section by participating cities.
1-40 The Department by rule may establish reasonable fees sufficient to
1-41 recover from a city the costs of training and certifying peace
1-42 officers of the city under this section. A city engaging in
1-43 enforcement measures under this section shall pay all costs
1-44 relating to those measures and shall not be considered a party to
1-45 any federal grant agreement, or a grantee under any federal grant
1-46 to the Department, related to this section. Enforcement measures
1-47 conducted by a city under this subsection shall not be considered
1-48 enforcement measures of the Department for purposes of maintaining
1-49 levels of effort required pursuant to any federal grant.
1-50 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-57 Austin,
1-58 Texas
1-59 April 27, 1993
1-60 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-61 President of the Senate
1-62 Sir:
1-63 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
1-64 No. 1128, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-65 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-66 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
1-67 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-68 Sims,
2-1 Chairman
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2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 FOR AGAINST ON
2-5 ___________________________________________________________________
2-6 Name: Jesus Nava, Jr. x
2-7 Representing: City of Laredo
2-8 City: Laredo
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2-10 Name: Lester Ray Mills x
2-11 Representing: Tx Dept of Public Safety
2-12 City: Austin
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