By Wentworth                                    S.B. No. 1255

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to

 1-3     certain special agents of the United States government.

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

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

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The following named criminal investigators of the United

 1-8     States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the

 1-9     powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only

1-10     under the laws of the State of Texas:

1-11                 (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of

1-12     Investigation;

1-13                 (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;

1-14                 (3)  Special Agents of the United States Customs

1-15     Service[, excluding border patrolmen and custom inspectors];

1-16                 (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;

1-17                 (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;

1-18                 (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;

1-19                 (7)  Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the

1-20     United States Forest Service;

1-21                 (8)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation

1-22     Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the

1-23     Internal Revenue Service; [and]

1-24                 (9)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval

 2-1     Investigative Service;

 2-2                 (10)  Special Agents of the Immigration and

 2-3     Naturalization Service; and

 2-4                 (11)  Special Agents of the United States Department of

 2-5     State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

 2-6           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-12     passage, and it is so enacted.