By: Armbrister S.B. No. 734
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the number of certified peace officers commissioned and
1-2 employed by the office of the attorney general.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 402.009. Authority to Employ and Commission Peace
1-7 Officers. The attorney general may employ and commission [as]
1-8 peace officers [not more than five persons at any one time] as
1-9 investigators for the limited purpose of assisting the attorney
1-10 general in carrying out the duties of that office relating to
1-11 prosecution assistance and crime prevention.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.