By Giddings H.B. No. 3138
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain offenses within view.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 14.01 (a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 14.01. Offense within view. (a) A peace officer or
1-7 any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when
1-8 the offense is committed in his presence or within his view, if the
1-9 offense is one classed as a felony, <or as> an offense against the
1-10 public peace<.>, or an offense committed under Article 30.05 of the
1-11 Penal Code.
1-12 (b) A peace officer may arrest an offender without a warrant
1-13 for any offense committed in his presence or within his view.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 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.