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. 1-36 * * * * *