By Denny                                              H.B. No. 1260
       74R5790 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
    1-3  marshalls and deputy marshalls of the United States Marshall
    1-4  Service.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 2.122(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  The following named criminal investigators of the United
    1-9  States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
   1-10  powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only
   1-11  under the laws of the State of Texas:
   1-12              (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
   1-13  Investigation;
   1-14              (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
   1-15              (3)  Special Agents of United States Customs, excluding
   1-16  border patrolmen and custom inspectors;
   1-17              (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
   1-18              (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
   1-19              (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
   1-20              (7)  Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the
   1-21  United States Forest Service;
   1-22              (8)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
   1-23  Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
   1-24  Internal Revenue Service; <and>
    2-1              (9)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
    2-2  Investigative Service; and
    2-3              (10)  Marshalls and Deputy Marshalls of the United
    2-4  States Marshall Service.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.