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.