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.