By Counts                                             H.B. No. 1121
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the law enforcement authority of certain investigators
 1-3     acting outside their county of jurisdiction.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 362.001(2), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (2)  "Law enforcement officer" means a municipal police
 1-8     officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, deputy constable,
 1-9     marshal, deputy marshal, investigator of a district attorney's,
1-10     criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office,  or [a]
1-11     police officer of a joint airport who has been commissioned as a
1-12     peace officer under the laws of this state.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Article 14.03(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           (g)  A peace officer [who is] listed in Subdivision (1), (2),
1-16     (3), [or] (4), or (5), Article 2.12, who is licensed under Chapter
1-17     415, Government Code, and is outside of the officer's jurisdiction
1-18     may arrest without a warrant a person who commits any offense
1-19     within the officer's presence or view, except that an officer who
1-20     is outside the officer's jurisdiction may arrest a person for a
1-21     violation of Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, [the Uniform
1-22     Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas
1-23     Civil Statutes)] only if the officer is listed in Subdivision (4),
1-24     Article 2.12.  A peace officer making an arrest under this
 2-1     subsection shall as soon as practicable after making the arrest
 2-2     notify a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where the
 2-3     arrest was made.  The law enforcement agency shall then take
 2-4     custody of the person committing the offense and take the person
 2-5     before a magistrate in compliance with Article 14.06.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  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.