By Luna                                               S.B. No. 1078
       74R7292 PEP-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating  to the duties and powers of peace officers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 2.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 2.13.  DUTIES AND POWERS.  (a)  In this section, "peace
    1-7  officer" means an officer listed in Article 2.12 or defined as a
    1-8  peace officer by other law.
    1-9        (b)  It is the duty of every peace officer to preserve the
   1-10  peace  in this state <within his jurisdiction>.  To effect this
   1-11  purpose, he shall use all lawful means.  In <He shall in> every
   1-12  case where a peace officer <he> is authorized by the provisions of
   1-13  this Code, the officer  shall interfere without warrant to prevent
   1-14  or suppress crime.  He shall execute all lawful process issued to
   1-15  him by any magistrate or court.  He shall give notice to some
   1-16  magistrate of all offenses committed within this state <his
   1-17  jurisdiction>, where he has good reason  to believe there has been
   1-18  a violation of the penal law.  A peace officer may <He shall>
   1-19  arrest offenders without warrant in every case where he is
   1-20  authorized by law, in order that they may be taken before the
   1-21  proper magistrate or court and be tried.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.