By: Lucio S.B. No. 965 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to 1-2 commissioned law enforcement officers of the National Park Service. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) A commissioned law enforcement officer of the National 1-7 Park Service is not a peace officer under the laws of this state, 1-8 except that the officer has the powers of arrest, search, and 1-9 seizure as to any offense under the laws of this state committed 1-10 within the boundaries of a national park or national recreation 1-11 area. In this subsection, "national park or national recreation 1-12 area" means a national park or national recreation area included in 1-13 the National Park System as defined by 16 U.S.C. Section 1c(a). 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.