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.