By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 965
         76R6894 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
 1-3     commissioned rangers of the National Park Service.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The following named criminal investigators of the United
 1-8     States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
 1-9     powers of arrest, search and seizure as to felony offenses only
1-10     under the laws of the State of Texas:
1-11                 (1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
1-12     Investigation;
1-13                 (2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
1-14                 (3)  Special Agents of the United States Customs
1-15     Service;
1-16                 (4)  Special Agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
1-17                 (5)  Special Agents of Federal Drug Enforcement Agency;
1-18                 (6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Service;
1-19                 (7)  Special Agents and Law Enforcement Officers of the
1-20     United States Forest Service;
1-21                 (8)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
1-22     Division and Inspectors of the Internal Security Division of the
1-23     Internal Revenue Service;
1-24                 (9)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
 2-1     Investigative Service;
 2-2                 (10)  Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States
 2-3     Marshals Service;
 2-4                 (11)  Special Agents of the United States Immigration
 2-5     and Naturalization Service; [and]
 2-6                 (12)  Special Agents of the United States Department of
 2-7     State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security; and
 2-8                 (13)  Commissioned Rangers of the National Park
 2-9     Service.
2-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16     passage, and it is so enacted.