By Chavez                                       H.B. No. 1546

      75R5079 SAW-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the employment of peace officers by the El Paso County

 1-3     Hospital District.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 281.057(a), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The board of the Dallas County Hospital District, the

 1-8     Tarrant County Hospital District, [or] the Bexar County Hospital

 1-9     District, or the El Paso County Hospital District may employ and

1-10     commission peace officers for the district.

1-11           SECTION 2.  Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure,  is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Art. 2.12.  WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS.  The following are peace

1-14     officers:

1-15                 (1)  sheriffs and their deputies;

1-16                 (2)  constables and deputy constables;

1-17                 (3)  marshals or police officers of an incorporated

1-18     city, town, or village;

1-19                 (4)  rangers and officers commissioned by the Public

1-20     Safety Commission and the Director of the Department of Public

1-21     Safety;

1-22                 (5)  investigators of the district attorneys', criminal

1-23     district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices;

1-24                 (6)  law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic

 2-1     Beverage Commission;

 2-2                 (7)  each member of an arson investigating unit

 2-3     commissioned by a city, a county, or the state;

 2-4                 (8)  officers commissioned under Section 37.081,

 2-5     Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code;

 2-6                 (9)  officers commissioned by the General Services

 2-7     Commission;

 2-8                 (10)  law enforcement officers commissioned by the

 2-9     Parks and Wildlife Commission;

2-10                 (11)  airport police officers commissioned by a city

2-11     with a population of more than one million, according to the most

2-12     recent federal census, that operates an airport that serves

2-13     commercial air carriers;

2-14                 (12)  airport security personnel commissioned as peace

2-15     officers by the governing body of any political subdivision of this

2-16     state, other than a city described by Subdivision (11), that

2-17     operates an airport that serves commercial air carriers;

2-18                 (13)  municipal park and recreational patrolmen and

2-19     security officers;

2-20                 (14)  security officers commissioned as peace officers

2-21     by the State Treasurer;

2-22                 (15)  officers commissioned by a water control and

2-23     improvement district under Section 51.132, Water Code;

2-24                 (16)  officers commissioned by a board of trustees

2-25     under Chapter 341, Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session,

2-26     1961 (Article 1187f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);

2-27                 (17)  investigators commissioned by the Texas State

 3-1     Board of Medical Examiners;

 3-2                 (18)  officers commissioned by the board of managers of

 3-3     the Dallas County Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital

 3-4     District, [or] the Bexar County Hospital District, or the El Paso

 3-5     County Hospital District under Section 281.057, Health and Safety

 3-6     Code;

 3-7                 (19)  county park rangers commissioned under Subchapter

 3-8     E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code;

 3-9                 (20)  investigators employed by the Texas Racing

3-10     Commission;

3-11                 (21)  officers commissioned by the State Board of

3-12     Pharmacy;

3-13                 (22)  officers commissioned by the governing body of a

3-14     metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section 451.108,

3-15     Transportation Code [13, Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,

3-16     Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas Civil

3-17     Statutes)], or by a regional transportation authority under Section

3-18     452.110, Transportation Code [10, Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th

3-19     Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas

3-20     Civil Statutes)];

3-21                 (23)  [officers commissioned under the Texas High-Speed

3-22     Rail Act (Article 6674v.2, Revised Statutes);]

3-23                 [(24)]  investigators commissioned by the attorney

3-24     general under Section 402.009, Government Code;

3-25                 (24) [(25)]  security officers and investigators

3-26     commissioned as peace officers under Chapter 466, Government Code;

3-27                 (25) [(26)]  an officer employed by the Texas

 4-1     Department of Health under Section 431.2471, Health and Safety

 4-2     Code;

 4-3                 (26) [(27)]  officers appointed by an appellate court

 4-4     under Subchapter F, Chapter 53, Government Code;

 4-5                 (27) [(28)]  officers commissioned by the state fire

 4-6     marshal under Chapter 417, Government Code; [and]

 4-7                 (28) [(29)]  an investigator commissioned by the

 4-8     commissioner of insurance under Article 1.10D, Insurance Code;

 4-9     and[.]

4-10                 (29)  apprehension specialists commissioned by the

4-11     Texas Youth Commission as officers under Section 61.0931, Human

4-12     Resources Code.

4-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

4-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

4-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

4-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

4-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

4-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

4-19     passage, and it is so enacted.