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.