By Brimer                                              H.B. No. 464
       74R2388 DD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a peace officer to arrest a person
    1-3  without a warrant.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.03(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Any peace officer may arrest, without warrant:
    1-8              (1)  persons found in suspicious places and under
    1-9  circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been
   1-10  guilty of some felony, violation of Title 9, Chapter 42, Penal
   1-11  Code, breach of the peace, or offense under Section 49.02, Penal
   1-12  Code, or threaten, or are about to commit some offense against the
   1-13  laws;
   1-14              (2)  persons who the peace officer has probable cause
   1-15  to believe have committed an assault resulting in bodily injury to
   1-16  another person and the peace officer has probable cause to believe
   1-17  that there is danger of further bodily injury to that person;
   1-18              (3)  persons who the peace officer has probable cause
   1-19  to believe have committed the offense defined by Section 25.08,
   1-20  Penal Code (violation of Protective Order), if the offense is not
   1-21  committed in the presence of the peace officer; or
   1-22              (4)  persons who the peace officer has probable cause
   1-23  to believe:
   1-24                    (A)  have attempted or committed an assault
    2-1  against <resulting in bodily injury to> a member of the person's
    2-2  family or household;
    2-3                    (B)  have committed a breach of the peace against
    2-4  a member of the person's family or household; or
    2-5                    (C)  are about to commit a breach of the peace
    2-6  against a member of the person's family or household.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
    2-8  to an arrest made on or after the effective date of this Act.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.