By Zaffirini S.B. No. 720 76R7209 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to 1-3 border patrol agents of the United States Immigration and 1-4 Naturalization Service. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by amending Subsection (a) and by adding Subsection (d) to 1-8 read as follows: 1-9 (a) The following named criminal investigators of the United 1-10 States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the 1-11 powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only 1-12 under the laws of the State of Texas: 1-13 (1) Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of 1-14 Investigation; 1-15 (2) Special Agents of the Secret Service; 1-16 (3) Special Agents of the United States Customs 1-17 Service; 1-18 (4) Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; 1-19 (5) Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency; 1-20 (6) Inspectors of the United States Postal Service; 1-21 (7) Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the 1-22 United States Forest Service; 1-23 (8) Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation 1-24 Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the 2-1 Internal Revenue Service; 2-2 (9) Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval 2-3 Investigative Service; 2-4 (10) Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States 2-5 Marshals Service; 2-6 (11) Special Agents and Border Patrol Agents of the 2-7 United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; and 2-8 (12) Special Agents of the United States Department of 2-9 State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security. 2-10 (d) Notwithstanding the provision in Subsection (a) 2-11 authorizing officers listed in that subsection to enforce only 2-12 felony violations of state law, the officer may enforce misdemeanor 2-13 violations of state law if specifically authorized to do so by 2-14 another provision of this article. 2-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.