By Telford                                            H.B. No. 1155
       74R3199 GWK-D
                                 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 adjoining this state, while
   1-10  the officer is in this state, has the same powers, duties, and
   1-11  immunities of a peace officer of this state who is acting in the
   1-12  discharge of an official duty, but only:
   1-13              (1)  during a time in which:
   1-14                    (A)  the peace officer from the adjoining state
   1-15  is transporting an inmate or criminal defendant from a county in
   1-16  the adjoining state that is on the border between the two states to
   1-17  a hospital or other medical facility in a county in this state that
   1-18  is on the border between the two states; or
   1-19                    (B)  the peace officer is returning the inmate or
   1-20  defendant from the hospital or facility to the county in the
   1-21  adjoining state; and
   1-22              (2)  to the extent necessary to:
   1-23                    (A)  maintain custody of the inmate or defendant
   1-24  while transporting the inmate or defendant; or
    2-1                    (B)  regain custody of the inmate or defendant if
    2-2  the inmate or defendant escapes while being transported.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.