1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number of certified peace officers employed by the
1-3 Texas Forest Service.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 88.103, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 88.103. ENFORCEMENT; APPOINTMENT OF PEACE OFFICERS.
1-8 The director may appoint not to exceed 25 [12] employees of the
1-9 Texas Forest Service who are certified by the Commission on Law
1-10 Enforcement Officer Standards and Education as qualified to be
1-11 peace officers to serve as peace officers under his direction in
1-12 executing the enforcement duties of that agency. The appointments
1-13 must be approved by the board which shall commission the appointees
1-14 as peace officers. Any officer commissioned under this section is
1-15 vested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities of peace
1-16 officers in the performance of his duties. The officer shall take
1-17 the oath required of peace officers and shall execute a good and
1-18 sufficient bond in the sum of $5,000, payable to the governor and
1-19 his successors in office, with two or more good and sufficient
1-20 personal sureties or with one corporate surety authorized to do
1-21 business in Texas, conditioned that he will fairly, impartially,
1-22 and faithfully perform all the duties that may be required of him
1-23 by law. The bond may be sued on in the name of any person injured
1-24 until the whole amount of the bond is recovered.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 722 was passed by the House on April
23, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 722 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor