By Sibley, et al. S.B. No. 238
74R2250 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the employment and commissioning of law enforcement
1-3 personnel to provide security services to certain educational
1-4 institutions.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 51.214, Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 51.214. SECURITY OFFICERS FOR MEDICAL CORPORATIONS IN
1-9 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES <CITIES>. (a) In any municipality <city>
1-10 with a population of 1,000,000 <1,200,000> or more, <according to
1-11 the most recent federal census,> the governing board of a private,
1-12 nonprofit medical corporation that provides security services for
1-13 an institution <institutions> of higher education or private
1-14 postsecondary educational institution and other entities located
1-15 within the same medical complex, or that provides security services
1-16 for a branch of that medical complex, may employ and commission
1-17 security personnel to enforce the law of this state at the medical
1-18 complex and its branches.
1-19 (b) An officer commissioned under this section has all the
1-20 powers, privileges, and immunities of a peace officer while on the
1-21 property under the control and jurisdiction of the medical
1-22 corporation or while otherwise performing his assigned duties. An
1-23 officer assigned to duty and commissioned shall take and file the
1-24 oath required of peace officers and shall execute and file a good
2-1 and sufficient bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to the governor,
2-2 with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that he
2-3 will fairly, impartially, and faithfully perform the duties
2-4 required of him by law. The bond may be sued on from time to time
2-5 in the name of the person injured until the whole amount is
2-6 recovered.
2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.