By:  Galloway                                         S.B. No. 1712
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to commissioning peace officers to protect persons and
    1-2  property at housing authorities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 392, Local Government Code,
    1-5  is amended by adding Section 392.066 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 392.066.  SECURITY OFFICERS.  (a)  An authority may
    1-7  employ security officers and commission security officers as peace
    1-8  officers to protect persons and property at housing projects
    1-9  operated by the authority.
   1-10        (b)  A security officer may not be commissioned as a peace
   1-11  officer under this section unless the security officer meets all
   1-12  standards for licensing as a peace officer by the Commission on Law
   1-13  Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
   1-14        (c)  The primary jurisdiction of a peace officer commissioned
   1-15  under this section includes:
   1-16              (1)  the property of a housing project located within
   1-17  the territorial boundaries of the authority; and
   1-18              (2)  any public street or alley that is contiguous to
   1-19  property of a housing project but not extending beyond the property
   1-20  of the housing project.
   1-21        (d)  Within a peace officer's primary jurisdiction, a peace
   1-22  officer commissioned under this section:
   1-23              (1)  is vested with all the powers, privileges, and
    2-1  immunities of peace officers;
    2-2              (2)  may, in accordance with Chapter 14, Code of
    2-3  Criminal Procedure, arrest without a warrant any person who
    2-4  violates a law of the state; and
    2-5              (3)  may enforce all traffic laws on streets and
    2-6  highways.
    2-7        (e)  Outside a peace officer's primary jurisdiction, a peace
    2-8  officer commissioned under this section is vested with all the
    2-9  powers, privileges, and immunities of peace officers and may arrest
   2-10  any person who violates any law of the state if the peace officer:
   2-11              (1)  is summoned by a law enforcement agency to provide
   2-12  assistance; or
   2-13              (2)  is assisting a law enforcement agency.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, as
   2-15  amended by Chapters 339, 695, and 912, Acts of the 73rd
   2-16  Legislature, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   2-17        Art. 2.12.  WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS.  The following are peace
   2-18  officers:
   2-19              (1)  sheriffs and their deputies;
   2-20              (2)  constables and deputy constables;
   2-21              (3)  marshals or police officers of an incorporated
   2-22  city, town, or village;
   2-23              (4)  rangers and officers commissioned by the Public
   2-24  Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public
   2-25  Safety;
    3-1              (5)  investigators of the district attorneys', criminal
    3-2  district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;
    3-3              (6)  law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic
    3-4  Beverage Commission;
    3-5              (7)  each member of an arson investigating unit
    3-6  commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;
    3-7              (8)  officers commissioned under Section 21.483,
    3-8  Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code;
    3-9              (9)  officers commissioned by the General Services
   3-10  Commission;
   3-11              (10)  law enforcement officers commissioned by the
   3-12  Parks and Wildlife Commission;
   3-13              (11)  airport police officers commissioned by a city
   3-14  with a population of more than one million, according to the most
   3-15  recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves
   3-16  commercial air carriers;
   3-17              (12)  airport security personnel commissioned as peace
   3-18  officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this
   3-19  state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that
   3-20  operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;
   3-21              (13)  municipal park and recreational patrolmen and
   3-22  security officers;
   3-23              (14)  security officers commissioned as peace officers
   3-24  by the State Treasurer;
   3-25              (15)  officers commissioned by a water control and
    4-1  improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;
    4-2              (16)  officers commissioned by a board of trustees
    4-3  under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,
    4-4  1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
    4-5              (17)  investigators commissioned by the Texas State
    4-6  Board of Medical Examiners;
    4-7              (18)  officers commissioned by the board of managers of
    4-8  the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital
    4-9  District, or the Bexar County Hospital District under Section
   4-10  281.057, Health and Safety Code;
   4-11              (19)  county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter
   4-12  E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;
   4-13              (20)  investigators employed by the Texas Racing
   4-14  Commission;
   4-15              (21)  officers commissioned by the State Board of
   4-16  Pharmacy;
   4-17              (22)  officers commissioned by the governing body of a
   4-18  metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 13, Chapter 141,
   4-19  Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
   4-20  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by a regional transportation
   4-21  authority under Section 10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
   4-22  Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
   4-23  Civil Statutes);
   4-24              (23)  officers commissioned by the Texas High-Speed
   4-25  Rail Authority;
    5-1              (24)  investigators commissioned by the attorney
    5-2  general under Section 402.009, Government Code;
    5-3              (25)  security officers and investigators commissioned
    5-4  as peace officers under Chapter 466, Government Code; <and>
    5-5              (26)  an officer employed by the Texas Department of
    5-6  Health under Section 431.2471, Health and Safety Code;<.>
    5-7              (27) <(26)>  officers appointed by an appellate court
    5-8  under Subchapter F, Chapter 53, Government Code;<.>
    5-9              (28) <(26)>  officers commissioned by the state fire
   5-10  marshal under Chapter 417, Government Code; and
   5-11              (29)  security officers commissioned by a housing
   5-12  authority under Section 392.066, Local Government Code.
   5-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   5-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   5-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   5-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   5-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   5-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   5-19  passage, and it is so enacted.