1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the limited law enforcement authority of certain agents
 1-3     or officers of the government of the United States.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A customs inspector of the United States Customs Service
 1-8     or a border patrolman or immigration officer of the United States
 1-9     Department of Justice is not a peace officer under the laws of this
1-10     state but, on the premises of a port facility designated by the
1-11     commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization
1-12     Service as a port of entry for arrival in the United States by land
1-13     transportation from the United Mexican States into the State of
1-14     Texas or at a permanent established border patrol traffic check
1-15     point, has the authority to detain a person pending transfer
1-16     without unnecessary delay to a peace officer if the inspector,
1-17     patrolman, or officer has probable cause to believe that the person
1-18     has engaged in conduct that is a violation of Section 49.02, 49.04,
1-19     49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, regardless of whether the violation
1-20     may be disposed of in a criminal proceeding or a juvenile justice
1-21     proceeding.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1907 was passed by the House on April
         30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1907 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor