Amend CSHB 7 in ARTICLE 10 by adding the following SECTION and 
renumbering the other SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION 10.__.  Chapter 301, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Subchapter F to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER F.  COMPELLING ATTENDANCE

OF ABSENT LEGISLATOR
	Sec. 301.071.  AUTHORITY OF PEACE OFFICERS.  (a) In this 
section, "peace officer" means an individual who is elected, 
appointed, or employed to serve as a peace officer for a 
governmental entity and who is identified as a peace officer in 
Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or other law.
	(b)  A peace officer may arrest a member of either house of 
the legislature and bring the member under the peace officer's 
custody to the hall of that house in the Capitol building in Austin 
at the direction of the presiding officer, sergeant-at-arms, or 
other authorized officer of that house, if the arrest is authorized 
by a warrant or other process issued by the applicable house in 
accordance with Section 10, Article III, Texas Constitution, or the 
rules of the applicable house.
	(c)  At the request of the presiding officer of either house 
of the legislature, the Department of Public Safety of the State of 
Texas shall make peace officers employed by the department 
available to carry out the authority provided by this section on 
behalf of that house.
	(d)  The authority provided by this section is in addition to 
the other powers and duties of a peace officer provided by law.
	(e)  In carrying out the authority provided by this section, 
a peace officer:
		(1)  is considered to be exercising discretionary 
duties within the scope of the peace officer's authority for which 
the peace officer has the official immunity provided by law while 
exercising a discretionary duty; and
		(2)  has the immunity that an officer of the house of 
the legislature would have in carrying out the same authority, in 
addition to the immunity provided by law to a peace officer in the 
exercise of discretionary duties of a peace officer.