By Wentworth S.B. No. 1255
75R8993 T
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.