SRC-PNG S.B. 684 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 684
76R518 KLA-DBy: Bivins
Border Affairs - Special
4/13/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

This legislation was requested by the City of Texhoma, a small city on the
Texas-Oklahoma border, whose only law enforcement with jurisdiction in
Texas is the Sherman County Sheriff, 20 miles away.  Texhoma's municipal
police force is composed of officers commissioned and licensed by Oklahoma,
not Texas.  As a result, the Oklahoma officers cannot enforce city
ordinances or Texas state law in the portion of the city located on the
Texas side of the state line.  This bill would authorize peace officers
from adjoining states to enforce the law in a bordering municipality in
this state. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 684 authorizes peace officers from adjoining states to
enforce the law in a bordering municipality in this state. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Article 2.124, Code of Criminal Procedure, to provide
that a commissioned peace officer of a state of the United States of
America adjoining this state, while the officer is in this state, has the
same powers, duties, and immunities as a peace officer of this state who is
acting in the discharge of an official duty, but only in certain areas and
at the time the peace officer is regularly assigned to duty in a county,
parish, or municipality that adjoins this state.  Authorizes a peace
officer described by this subsection to enforce the ordinances of a Texas
municipality after the governing body of the municipality authorizes that
enforcement by a majority vote in an open meeting.  Makes conforming and
nonsubstantive changes. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.