S.B. No. 238
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the employment and commissioning of law enforcement
    1-2  personnel to provide security services to certain educational
    1-3  institutions.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.214, Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.214.  SECURITY OFFICERS FOR MEDICAL CORPORATIONS IN
    1-8  CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES <CITIES>.  (a)  In any municipality <city>
    1-9  with a population of 1,000,000 <1,200,000> or more, <according to
   1-10  the most recent federal census,> the governing board of a private,
   1-11  nonprofit medical corporation that provides security services for
   1-12  an institution <institutions> of higher education or a private
   1-13  postsecondary educational institution and other entities located
   1-14  within the same medical complex, or that provides security services
   1-15  for a branch of that medical complex, may employ and commission
   1-16  security personnel to enforce the law of this state at the medical
   1-17  complex and its branches.
   1-18        (b)  An officer commissioned under this section has all the
   1-19  powers, privileges, and immunities of a peace officer while on the
   1-20  property under the control and jurisdiction of the medical
   1-21  corporation or while otherwise performing his assigned duties.  An
   1-22  officer assigned to duty and commissioned shall take and file the
   1-23  oath required of peace officers and shall execute and file a good
   1-24  and sufficient bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to the governor,
    2-1  with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that he
    2-2  will fairly, impartially, and faithfully perform the duties
    2-3  required of him by law.  The bond may be sued on from time to time
    2-4  in the name of the person injured until the whole amount is
    2-5  recovered.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.