79R1539 YDB-D


By:  Martinez, Escobar, Gonzales, Pena,                           H.B. No. 233
 
    et al.                                                                   



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the securing by municipal police officers of a scene to 
which the municipality's emergency ambulance service responds.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 774, Health and Safety Code, is amended 
by adding Section 774.004 to read as follows:
	Sec. 774.004.  MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICER RESPONSE 
ACCOMPANYING MUNICIPAL AMBULANCE RESPONSE OUTSIDE MUNICIPALITY.  
(a)  This section applies to an agreement between two 
municipalities under Section 774.001(b) or between a county and a 
municipality under Section 774.001(b) or 774.003.
	(b)  The agreement may authorize police officers employed by 
the responding municipality to secure the scene of an emergency, 
accident, fire, or disaster to which the municipality's emergency 
ambulance service responds under the agreement.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.