1-1 By: Sibley, Cain S.B. No. 238
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 1995; January 18, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 January 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 8, Nays 0; January 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the employment and commissioning of law enforcement
1-9 personnel to provide security services to certain educational
1-10 institutions.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 51.214, Education Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 51.214. SECURITY OFFICERS FOR MEDICAL CORPORATIONS IN
1-15 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES <CITIES>. (a) In any municipality <city>
1-16 with a population of 1,000,000 <1,200,000> or more, <according to
1-17 the most recent federal census,> the governing board of a private,
1-18 nonprofit medical corporation that provides security services for
1-19 an institution <institutions> of higher education or a private
1-20 postsecondary educational institution and other entities located
1-21 within the same medical complex, or that provides security services
1-22 for a branch of that medical complex, may employ and commission
1-23 security personnel to enforce the law of this state at the medical
1-24 complex and its branches.
1-25 (b) An officer commissioned under this section has all the
1-26 powers, privileges, and immunities of a peace officer while on the
1-27 property under the control and jurisdiction of the medical
1-28 corporation or while otherwise performing his assigned duties. An
1-29 officer assigned to duty and commissioned shall take and file the
1-30 oath required of peace officers and shall execute and file a good
1-31 and sufficient bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to the governor,
1-32 with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that he
1-33 will fairly, impartially, and faithfully perform the duties
1-34 required of him by law. The bond may be sued on from time to time
1-35 in the name of the person injured until the whole amount is
1-36 recovered.
1-37 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43 passage, and it is so enacted.
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