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By:  Averitt                                                      S.B. No. 615
	(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2005; March 1, 2005, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
May 5, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4, 
Nays 0; May 5, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the powers of a Special Agent of the Secret Service to 
effect an arrest, search, or seizure.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  In addition to the powers of arrest, search, and seizure 
under Subsection (a), a Special Agent of the Secret Service 
protecting a person described by 18 U.S.C. Section 3056(a) or 
investigating a threat against a person described by 18 U.S.C. 
Section 3056(a) has the powers of arrest, search, and seizure as to:
		(1)  misdemeanor offenses under the laws of this state; 
and          
		(2)  any criminal offense under federal law.                           
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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