H.B. No. 1155
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the limited authority of a peace officer from an
    1-3  adjoining state to transport certain criminal defendants in this
    1-4  state.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended
    1-7  by adding Article 2.124 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 2.124.  PEACE OFFICERS FROM ADJOINING STATES.  A
    1-9  commissioned peace officer of a state of the United States of
   1-10  America adjoining this state, while the officer is in this state,
   1-11  has the same powers, duties, and immunities of a peace officer of
   1-12  this state who is acting in the discharge of an official duty, but
   1-13  only:
   1-14              (1)  during a time in which:
   1-15                    (A)  the peace officer from the adjoining state
   1-16  has physical custody of an inmate or criminal defendant and is
   1-17  transporting the inmate or defendant from a county in the adjoining
   1-18  state that is on the border between the two states to a hospital or
   1-19  other medical facility in a county in this state that is on the
   1-20  border between the two states; or
   1-21                    (B)  the peace officer has physical custody of
   1-22  the inmate or defendant and is returning the inmate or defendant
   1-23  from the hospital or facility to the county in the adjoining state;
   1-24  and
    2-1              (2)  to the extent necessary to:
    2-2                    (A)  maintain physical custody of the inmate or
    2-3  defendant while transporting the inmate or defendant; or
    2-4                    (B)  regain physical custody of the inmate or
    2-5  defendant if the inmate or defendant escapes while being
    2-6  transported.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.