74R7057 GWK-D
          By Telford                                            H.B. No. 1155
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1155:
          By Oakley                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1155
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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  is transporting an inmate or criminal defendant from a county in
   1-17  the adjoining state that is on the border between the two states to
   1-18  a hospital or other medical facility in a county in this state that
   1-19  is on the border between the two states; or
   1-20                    (B)  the peace officer is returning the inmate or
   1-21  defendant from the hospital or facility to the county in the
   1-22  adjoining state; and
   1-23              (2)  to the extent necessary to:
   1-24                    (A)  maintain custody of the inmate or defendant
    2-1  while transporting the inmate or defendant; or
    2-2                    (B)  regain custody of the inmate or defendant if
    2-3  the inmate or defendant escapes while being transported.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.