By Gutierrez H.B. No. 1907
76R8160 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 an established border patrol traffic check point, has
1-15 the authority to detain a person pending transfer without
1-16 unnecessary delay to a peace officer if the inspector, patrolman,
1-17 or officer has probable cause to believe that the person has
1-18 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.