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.