By Dutton H.B. No. 1314 74R4340 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of a motor vehicle by a peace officer in 1-3 pursuit of a person. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended 1-6 by adding Article 2.131 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 2.131. LIMITATION ON USE OF MOTOR VEHICLE. A peace 1-8 officer is justified in pursuing a person by motor vehicle at 1-9 speeds that are not reasonable and safe under the conditions 1-10 existing at the time and place of pursuit only if the officer 1-11 reasonably believes pursuit at those speeds is immediately 1-12 necessary to arrest a person engaged in the commission of a felony 1-13 offense other than theft of a motor vehicle or an offense under 1-14 Section 31.07, Penal Code. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.