By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1094
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the employment of commissioned peace officers by the
1-2 office of the attorney general.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 The attorney general may employ and commission <as> peace
1-7 officers <not more than five persons at any one time as
1-8 investigators> for law enforcement <the limited> purposes <purpose
1-9 of> and for assisting the attorney general in carrying out the
1-10 duties of that office <relating to prosecution assistance and crime
1-11 prevention>.
1-12 SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on
1-13 September 1, 1995.
1-14 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-15 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.