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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