By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 734
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the number of certified peace officers commissioned and
 1-3     employed by the Office of the Attorney General.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Section 402.009.  Authority to Employ and Commission Peace
 1-8     Officers.  The attorney general may employ and commission [as]
 1-9     peace officers [not more than five persons at any one time] as
1-10     investigators for the limited purpose of assisting the attorney
1-11     general in carrying out the duties of that office relating to
1-12     prosecution assistance and crime prevention.
1-13           SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect on
1-14     September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-16     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended.