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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1121 was passed by the House on March
16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 3 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1121 was passed by the Senate on May
10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor