Bill Text: TX HB3863 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to certain federal officers or agents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3863 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3863-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to certain federal officers or agents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3863 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3863-Comm_Sub.html
By: Wilson (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 3863 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2019; | ||
May 13, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to | ||
certain federal officers or agents. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Articles 2.122(a) and (b), Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The following named criminal investigators of the | ||
United States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the | ||
powers of arrest, search, and seizure under the laws of this state | ||
as to felony offenses only: | ||
(1) Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of | ||
Investigation; | ||
(2) Special Agents of the Secret Service; | ||
(3) Special Agents of the United States Immigration | ||
and Customs Enforcement; | ||
(4) Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, | ||
Firearms and Explosives; | ||
(5) Special Agents of the United States Drug | ||
Enforcement Administration; | ||
(6) Inspectors of the United States Postal Inspection | ||
Service; | ||
(7) Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation | ||
Division of the Internal Revenue Service; | ||
(8) Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval | ||
Criminal Investigative Service; | ||
(9) Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States | ||
Marshals Service; | ||
(10) Special Agents of the United States Department of | ||
State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security; | ||
(11) Special Agents of the Treasury Inspector General | ||
for Tax Administration; | ||
(12) Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General | ||
of the United States Social Security Administration; | ||
(13) Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General | ||
of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; | ||
(14) Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General | ||
of the United States Department of Agriculture; and | ||
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Security and Law Enforcement of the United States Department of | ||
Veterans Affairs. | ||
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Secretary of Homeland Security [ |
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with the protection of property owned or occupied by the federal | ||
government and persons on the property [ |
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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, 2019. | ||
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