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By:  Whitmire                                                     S.B. No. 840
	(In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2003; March 10, 2003, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
March 31, 2003, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 
Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 31, 2003, 
sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 840                                    By:  Whitmire


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to authority of certain peace officers to make arrests 
outside their jurisdictions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Article 14.03, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(g)(1)  A peace officer listed in Subdivision (4), Article 
2.12, may arrest a person who anywhere in this state commits an 
offense within the officer's presence or view, including an offense 
under Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code.
		(2)  A peace officer listed in Subdivision (1), (2), 
(3), [(4),] or (5), Article 2.12, who is licensed under Chapter 1701 
[415], Occupations [Government] Code, and is outside of the 
officer's jurisdiction may arrest without a warrant a person who 
anywhere in this state commits an [any] offense within the 
officer's presence or view, except that an officer described by 
this subdivision who is outside the officer's jurisdiction may 
arrest a person for a violation of Subtitle C, Title 7, 
Transportation Code, only if the offense is committed in a county or 
counties in which the political subdivision employing the peace 
officer is located [officer is listed in Subdivision (4), Article 
2.12].
		(3)  A peace officer making an arrest under this 
subsection shall as soon as practicable after making the arrest 
notify a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where the 
arrest was made.  The law enforcement agency shall then take custody 
of the person committing the offense and take the person before a 
magistrate in compliance with Article 14.06.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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