By Turner of Coleman                                  H.B. No. 1500
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the employment and commissioning of peace officers by
 1-3     the  attorney general.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 402.009.  AUTHORITY TO EMPLOY AND COMMISSION PEACE
 1-8     OFFICERS.  The attorney general may employ and commission as peace
 1-9     officers [not more than five persons at any one time as]
1-10     investigators for the limited purpose of assisting the attorney
1-11     general in carrying out the duties of that office relating to
1-12     prosecution assistance and crime prevention.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.