1-1     By:  Gutierrez, Najera, Hinojosa                      H.B. No. 1907
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-4     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-5     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the limited law enforcement authority of certain agents
1-10     or officers of the government of the United States.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           (c)  A customs inspector of the United States Customs Service
1-15     or a border patrolman or immigration officer of the United States
1-16     Department of Justice is not a peace officer under the laws of this
1-17     state but, on the premises of a port facility designated by the
1-18     commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization
1-19     Service as a port of entry for arrival in the United States by land
1-20     transportation from the United Mexican States into the State of
1-21     Texas or at a permanent established border patrol traffic check
1-22     point, has the authority to detain a person pending transfer
1-23     without unnecessary delay to a peace officer if the inspector,
1-24     patrolman, or officer has probable cause to believe that the person
1-25     has engaged in conduct that is a violation of Section 49.02, 49.04,
1-26     49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, regardless of whether the violation
1-27     may be disposed of in a criminal proceeding or a juvenile justice
1-28     proceeding.
1-29           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35     passage, and it is so enacted.
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