By: Blanco  S.B. No. 906
         (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2025; February 13, 2025,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the authority of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo to commission
  peace officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 2A.003(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The tribal council of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of
  Texas, [or] of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, or of the
  Ysleta del Sur Pueblo may employ and commission peace officers to
  enforce state law within the respective tribe's reservation.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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