By Alexander H.B. No. 1960
74R6431 JJT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to security officers of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive
1-3 Waste Disposal Authority commissioned as peace officers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 402, Health and Safety
1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 402.060 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 402.060. PEACE OFFICERS. (a) The authority may employ
1-8 and commission peace officers.
1-9 (b) The primary jurisdiction of a peace officer commissioned
1-10 by the authority includes:
1-11 (1) property owned by the authority;
1-12 (2) a disposal site managed or operated by the board;
1-13 and
1-14 (3) the part of a public road or alley that is
1-15 contiguous to the property or site.
1-16 (c) Within the peace officer's primary jurisdiction, a peace
1-17 officer commissioned by the authority:
1-18 (1) is vested with all of the powers, privileges, and
1-19 duties of a peace officer;
1-20 (2) in accordance with Chapter 14, Code of Criminal
1-21 Procedure, may arrest without a warrant a person who violates a law
1-22 of this state; and
1-23 (3) may enforce traffic laws on a public road.
1-24 (d) Outside the peace officer's primary jurisdiction, a
2-1 peace officer commissioned by the authority:
2-2 (1) is vested with all of the powers, privileges, and
2-3 duties of a peace officer; and
2-4 (2) may arrest a person who violates a law of this
2-5 state if the peace officer:
2-6 (A) is summoned by a law enforcement agency to
2-7 provide assistance; or
2-8 (B) is assisting a law enforcement agency.
2-9 SECTION 2. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, as
2-10 amended by Chapters 339, 695, and 912, Acts of the 73rd
2-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
2-12 Art. 2.12. WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS. The following are peace
2-13 officers:
2-14 (1) sheriffs and their deputies;
2-15 (2) constables and deputy constables;
2-16 (3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated
2-17 city, town, or village;
2-18 (4) rangers and officers commissioned by the Public
2-19 Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public
2-20 Safety;
2-21 (5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal
2-22 district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;
2-23 (6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic
2-24 Beverage Commission;
2-25 (7) each member of an arson investigating unit
2-26 commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;
2-27 (8) officers commissioned under Section 21.483,
3-1 Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code;
3-2 (9) officers commissioned by the General Services
3-3 Commission;
3-4 (10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the
3-5 Parks and Wildlife Commission;
3-6 (11) airport police officers commissioned by a city
3-7 with a population of more than one million, according to the most
3-8 recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves
3-9 commercial air carriers;
3-10 (12) airport security personnel commissioned as peace
3-11 officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this
3-12 state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that
3-13 operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;
3-14 (13) municipal park and recreational patrolmen and
3-15 security officers;
3-16 (14) security officers commissioned as peace officers
3-17 by the State Treasurer;
3-18 (15) officers commissioned by a water control and
3-19 improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;
3-20 (16) officers commissioned by a board of trustees
3-21 under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,
3-22 1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
3-23 (17) investigators commissioned by the Texas State
3-24 Board of Medical Examiners;
3-25 (18) officers commissioned by the board of managers of
3-26 the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital
3-27 District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under Section
4-1 281.057, Health and Safety Code;
4-2 (19) county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter
4-3 E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;
4-4 (20) investigators employed by the Texas Racing
4-5 Commission;
4-6 (21) officers commissioned by the State Board of
4-7 Pharmacy;
4-8 (22) officers commissioned by the governing body of a
4-9 metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141,
4-10 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
4-11 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation
4-12 authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
4-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
4-14 Civil Statutes);
4-15 (23) officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed
4-16 Rail Authority;
4-17 (24) investigators commissioned by the attorney
4-18 general under Section 402.009, Government Code;
4-19 (25) security officers and investigators commissioned
4-20 as peace officers under Chapter 466, Government Code; <and>
4-21 (26) an officer employed by the Texas Department of
4-22 Health under Section 431.2471, Health and Safety Code;<.>
4-23 (27) <(26)> officers appointed by an appellate court
4-24 under Subchapter F, Chapter 53, Government Code;<.>
4-25 (28) <(26)> officers commissioned by the state fire
4-26 marshal under Chapter 417, Government Code; and
4-27 (29) officers commissioned by the Texas Low-Level
5-1 Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority.
5-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
5-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-8 passage, and it is so enacted.