By Holzheauser                                         H.B. No. 218
       74R1466 DD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to granting limited law enforcement authority to special
    1-3  agents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 2.122(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The following named criminal investigators of the United
    1-8  States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
    1-9  powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only
   1-10  under the laws of the State of Texas:
   1-11              (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
   1-12  Investigation;
   1-13              (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
   1-14              (3)  Special Agents of United States Customs, excluding
   1-15  border patrolmen and custom inspectors;
   1-16              (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
   1-17              (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
   1-18              (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
   1-19              (7)  Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the
   1-20  United States Forest Service;
   1-21              (8)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
   1-22  Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
   1-23  Internal Revenue Service; <and>
   1-24              (9)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
    2-1  Investigative Service; and
    2-2              (10)  Special Agents of the United States Fish and
    2-3  Wildlife Service.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.