By Gutierrez, Flores, Wise, Solis, Hinojosa, et al. H.B. No. 870 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain federal agents to enforce 1-3 state law relating to public intoxication and driving while 1-4 intoxicated. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-8 (c) A customs inspector of the United States Customs Service 1-9 or a border patrolman or immigration officer of the United States 1-10 Department of Justice shall not be deemed to be a peace officer 1-11 under the laws of this state but has the authority to detain a 1-12 person and to transfer the custody of that person to a peace 1-13 officer of this state if the inspector, patrolman, or agent has 1-14 probable cause to believe that the person has committed an offense 1-15 under Section 49.02, 49.04, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code. Subject 1-16 to the foregoing condition, a customs inspector, border patrolman, 1-17 or immigration officer has the authority to detain a person younger 1-18 than 17 years of age pending transfer, without unnecessary delay, 1-19 to a peace officer authorized to take a child into custody as 1-20 provided by Section 52.01, Family Code. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.