By:  Whitmire                                                     S.B. No. 903
	(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2005; March 14, 2005, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
March 23, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5, 
Nays 0; March 23, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to certain persons that are special investigators.                 
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Article 2.122, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  A person designated as an officer or agent with law 
enforcement authority [a special policeman] by the Federal 
Protective Services division of the United States Department of 
Homeland Security under 40 U.S.C. Section 1315 [General Services 
Administration under 40 U.S.C. Section 318 or 318d] is not a peace 
officer but has the powers of arrest and search and seizure as to 
any offense under the laws of this state.
	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.



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