By Martinez Fischer H.B. No. 1149 77R4638 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a peace officer commissioned by a 1-3 school district to enforce certain traffic laws in a school 1-4 crossing zone. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 543, Transportation Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 543.0015 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 543.0015. ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT BY CERTAIN SCHOOL 1-9 DISTRICT PEACE OFFICERS. (a) A peace officer commissioned under 1-10 Section 37.081, Education Code, may, subject to Subsection (b), 1-11 arrest without warrant a person found committing a violation of 1-12 this subtitle in a school crossing zone of a school in the district 1-13 that commissioned the officer, if the board of trustees of the 1-14 applicable school district, acting under Section 37.081(a), 1-15 Education Code, determines that: 1-16 (1) the jurisdiction of peace officers commissioned by 1-17 the school district includes school crossing zones; and 1-18 (2) enforcement of this subtitle in a school crossing 1-19 zone is within the scope of the on-duty law enforcement activities 1-20 of school district peace officers. 1-21 (b) A peace officer commissioned by the school district may 1-22 not use a radar or laser unit to detect or measure the speed of a 1-23 motor vehicle to determine whether the operator is committing a 1-24 speeding offense under Subchapter H, Chapter 545, unless the 2-1 officer has received training in the proper use of the radar or 2-2 laser unit in the same manner as the training is received by: 2-3 (1) a police officer of the most populous municipality 2-4 in which the school district has territory; or 2-5 (2) a sheriff's deputy of the most populous county in 2-6 which the school district has territory, if the school district 2-7 does not have territory in a municipality. 2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-9 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-10 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-11 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-12 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.