By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 1500
76R6413 GWK-D
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.