By Craddick                                            H.B. No. 831
       74R551 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the powers and duties of police officers and marshals
    1-3  in certain municipalities and to the method of selecting a marshal
    1-4  in certain municipalities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 22.071, Local Government Code, is amended
    1-7  by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), the <The>
   1-10  governing body by ordinance shall provide for the election or
   1-11  appointment of the officers provided by this section.
   1-12        (d)  A municipality shall elect a marshal to serve a term of
   1-13  two years.  The governing body of the municipality by ordinance
   1-14  shall prescribe the date on which the term begins and shall select
   1-15  the uniform election date on which the election must be held.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Section 341.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-17  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-18        (g)  A police officer may not make an arrest outside the
   1-19  boundaries of the municipality for an offense committed under the
   1-20  Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
   1-21  Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-22        SECTION 3.  Section 341.021, Local Government Code, is
   1-23  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-24        (h)  In performing duties under this section, a marshal may
    2-1  not serve a warrant for, investigate, or make an arrest for an
    2-2  offense unless the offense is committed inside the boundaries of
    2-3  the municipality.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  A municipality to which Section 1 of this Act
    2-5  applies and that, on the effective date of this Act, provides for
    2-6  an appointed marshal, shall provide for the election of the marshal
    2-7  before the first anniversary of that effective date.  The term of
    2-8  an appointed marshal of a municipality to which Section 1 of this
    2-9  Act applies who holds office on the effective date of this Act
   2-10  expires on the day a new elected marshal is installed, but the term
   2-11  may not exceed two years.
   2-12        SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-13        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.