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.