By McReynolds                                          H.B. No. 525
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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     special agents and law enforcement officers of the United States
 1-4     Forest Service.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended by amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (d) to
 1-8     read as follows:
 1-9           (a)  The following named criminal investigators of the United
1-10     States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
1-11     powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only
1-12     under the laws of the State of Texas:
1-13                 (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
1-14     Investigation;
1-15                 (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
1-16                 (3)  Special Agents of the United States Customs
1-17     Service;
1-18                 (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
1-19                 (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
1-20                 (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
1-21                 (7)  [Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of
1-22     the United States Forest Service;]
1-23                 [(8)] Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
1-24     Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
 2-1     Internal Revenue Service;
 2-2                 (8) [(9)]  Civilian Special Agents of the United States
 2-3     Naval Investigative Service;
 2-4                 (9) [(10)]  Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United
 2-5     States Marshals Service;
 2-6                 (10) [(11)]  Special Agents of the United States
 2-7     Immigration and Naturalization Service; and
 2-8                 (11) [(12)]  Special Agents of the United States
 2-9     Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
2-10           (d)  A Special Agent or Law Enforcement Officer of the United
2-11     States Forest Service is not a peace officer under the laws of this
2-12     state, except  that the agent or officer has the powers of arrest,
2-13     search, and seizure as to any offense under the laws of this state
2-14     committed within the National Forest System.  In this subsection,
2-15     "National Forest System" has the meaning assigned by 16 U.S.C.
2-16     Section 1609.
2-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23     passage, and it is so enacted.