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.