By West                                                 S.B. No. 87

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of certain federal peace officers to

 1-3     enforce state law relating to driving while intoxicated.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is

 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  A customs inspector or border patrolman of the United

 1-8     States Customs Service is not a peace officer under the laws of

 1-9     this state but has the powers of arrest and search and seizure as

1-10     to an offense under Section 49.04, Penal Code, or an offense under

1-11     Section 49.07 or 49.08, Penal Code, committed while the actor was

1-12     operating a motor vehicle.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.