1-1     By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1766
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     May 3, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 3, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1766                  By:  Nelson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the commissioning of peace officers at the Texas School
1-11     for the Deaf.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 30.052, Education Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
1-15           (l)  The governing board of the Texas School for the Deaf may
1-16     employ security personnel and may commission peace officers in the
1-17     same manner as a board of trustees of a school district under
1-18     Section 37.081.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect August 31, 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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