1-1     By:  Counts (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)                 H.B. No. 1121
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 17, 1999;
 1-3     March 18, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the law enforcement authority of certain investigators
 1-9     acting outside their county of jurisdiction.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 362.001(2), Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13                 (2)  "Law enforcement officer" means a municipal police
1-14     officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, deputy constable,
1-15     marshal, deputy marshal, investigator of a district attorney's,
1-16     criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office,  or [a]
1-17     police officer of a joint airport who has been commissioned as a
1-18     peace officer under the laws of this state.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Article 14.03(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-20     amended to read as follows:
1-21           (g)  A peace officer [who is] listed in Subdivision (1), (2),
1-22     (3), [or] (4), or (5), Article 2.12, who is licensed under Chapter
1-23     415, Government Code, and is outside of the officer's jurisdiction
1-24     may arrest without a warrant a person who commits any offense
1-25     within the officer's presence or view, except that an officer who
1-26     is outside the officer's jurisdiction may arrest a person for a
1-27     violation of Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, [the Uniform
1-28     Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas
1-29     Civil Statutes)] only if the officer is listed in Subdivision (4),
1-30     Article 2.12.  A peace officer making an arrest under this
1-31     subsection shall as soon as practicable after making the arrest
1-32     notify a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where the
1-33     arrest was made.  The law enforcement agency shall then take
1-34     custody of the person committing the offense and take the person
1-35     before a magistrate in compliance with Article 14.06.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.
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