1-1  By:  Oakley (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                   H.B. No. 2614
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the jurisdiction of peace officers.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Article 14.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-11  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-12        (g)  A peace officer who is listed in Subdivision (1), (2),
   1-13  (3), or (4), Article 2.12, is licensed under Chapter 415,
   1-14  Government Code, and is outside of the officer's jurisdiction may
   1-15  arrest without a warrant a person who commits any offense within
   1-16  the officer's presence or view, except that an officer who is
   1-17  outside the officer's jurisdiction may arrest a person for a
   1-18  violation of the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways
   1-19  (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) only if the officer
   1-20  is listed in Subdivision (4), Article 2.12.  A peace officer making
   1-21  an arrest under this subsection shall as soon as practicable after
   1-22  making the arrest notify a law enforcement agency having
   1-23  jurisdiction where the arrest was made.  The law enforcement agency
   1-24  shall then take custody of the person committing the offense and
   1-25  take the person before a magistrate in compliance with Article
   1-26  14.06.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Section 341.001(e), Local Government Code, is
   1-28  amended to read as follows:
   1-29        (e)  A police officer has:
   1-30              (1)  the powers, rights, duties, and jurisdiction
   1-31  granted to or imposed on a peace officer by the Code of Criminal
   1-32  Procedure <of a marshal of a Type A general-law municipality>; and
   1-33              (2)  other powers and duties prescribed by the
   1-34  governing body.
   1-35        SECTION 3.  Section 341.021(e), Local Government Code, is
   1-36  amended to read as follows:
   1-37        (e)  The marshal has the same power and jurisdiction as a
   1-38  peace officer has under the Code of Criminal Procedure <the county
   1-39  sheriff> to execute warrants, to prevent and suppress crime, and to
   1-40  arrest offenders.  The marshal has other powers, not inconsistent
   1-41  with state law, that the governing body confers by ordinance.
   1-42        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-47  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-48  passage, and it is so enacted.
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