1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 734
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 1, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the number of certified peace officers commissioned and
1-9 employed by the office of the attorney general.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 402.009, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 402.009. Authority to Employ and Commission Peace
1-14 Officers. The attorney general may employ and commission [as]
1-15 peace officers [not more than five persons at any one time] as
1-16 investigators for the limited purpose of assisting the attorney
1-17 general in carrying out the duties of that office relating to
1-18 prosecution assistance and crime prevention.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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