By Oakley                                             H.B. No. 2614
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the jurisdiction of peace officers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 14.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-6        (g)  A peace officer who is listed in Subdivision (1), (2),
    1-7  (3), or (4), Article 2.12, is licensed under Chapter 415,
    1-8  Government Code, and is outside of the officer's jurisdiction may
    1-9  arrest without a warrant a person who commits any offense within
   1-10  the officer's presence or view, except that an officer who is
   1-11  outside the officer's jurisdiction may arrest a person for a
   1-12  violation of the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways
   1-13  (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) only if the officer
   1-14  is listed in Subdivision (4), Article 2.12.  A peace officer making
   1-15  an arrest under this subsection shall as soon as practicable after
   1-16  making the arrest notify a law enforcement agency having
   1-17  jurisdiction where the arrest was made.  The law enforcement agency
   1-18  shall then take custody of the person committing the offense and
   1-19  take the person before a magistrate in compliance with Article
   1-20  14.06.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Section 341.001(e), Local Government Code, is
   1-22  amended to read as follows:
   1-23        (e)  A police officer has:
   1-24              (1)  the powers, rights, duties, and jurisdiction
    2-1  granted to or imposed on a peace officer by the Code of Criminal
    2-2  Procedure <of a marshal of a Type A general-law municipality>; and
    2-3              (2)  other powers and duties prescribed by the
    2-4  governing body.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Section 341.021(e), Local Government Code, is
    2-6  amended to read as follows:
    2-7        (e)  The marshal has the same power and jurisdiction as a
    2-8  peace officer has under the Code of Criminal Procedure <the county
    2-9  sheriff> to execute warrants, to prevent and suppress crime, and to
   2-10  arrest offenders.  The marshal has other powers, not inconsistent
   2-11  with state law, that the governing body confers by ordinance.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.