1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 965
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 9, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 19, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 19, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 965                   By:  Nelson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
1-11     commissioned law enforcement officers of the National Park Service.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-14     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-15           (d)  A commissioned law enforcement officer of the National
1-16     Park Service is not a peace officer under the laws of this state,
1-17     except that the officer has the powers of arrest, search, and
1-18     seizure as to any offense under the laws of this state committed
1-19     within the boundaries of a national park or national recreation
1-20     area.  In this subsection, "national park or national recreation
1-21     area" means a national park or national recreation area included in
1-22     the National Park System as defined by 16 U.S.C. Section 1c(a).
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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