By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3078
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the employment of commissioned peace officers by the
    1-3  office of the attorney general.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        The attorney general may employ and commission <as> peace
    1-8  officers <not more than five persons at any one time as
    1-9  investigators> for law enforcement <the limited> purposes <purpose
   1-10  of> and for assisting the attorney general in carrying out the
   1-11  duties of that office <relating to prosecution assistance and crime
   1-12  prevention>.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect on
   1-14  September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-16  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.