By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 1524
       74R6081 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting certain peace officers from performing
    1-3  duties in certain circumstances.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 2.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 2.13.  DUTIES AND POWERS.  (a)  It is the duty of every
    1-8  peace officer to preserve the peace within his jurisdiction.  To
    1-9  effect this purpose, he shall use all lawful means.  He shall in
   1-10  every case where he is authorized by the provisions of this Code,
   1-11  interfere without warrant to prevent or suppress crime.  He shall
   1-12  execute all lawful process issued to him by any magistrate or
   1-13  court.  He shall give notice to some magistrate of all offenses
   1-14  committed within his jurisdiction, where he has good reason to
   1-15  believe there has been a violation of the penal law.  He shall
   1-16  arrest offenders without warrant in every case where he is
   1-17  authorized by law, in order that they may be taken before the
   1-18  proper magistrate or court and be tried.
   1-19        (b)  A peace officer employed by a municipality with a
   1-20  population of 1.6 million or more or a county with a population of
   1-21  2.8 million or more may not perform law enforcement duties under a
   1-22  contract between the political subdivision employing the peace
   1-23  officer and a nongovernmental association.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The prohibition imposed by Article 2.13(b), Code
    2-1  of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act, applies only to
    2-2  services provided under a contract made on or after the effective
    2-3  date of this Act.  Services provided under a contract made before
    2-4  that date are governed by the law in effect at the time the
    2-5  contract was made, and the former law is continued in effect for
    2-6  that purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.