Bill Text: TX HB2346 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to commissioned law enforcement officers of a Federal Reserve bank.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2346 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2346-Introduced.html
84R10318 ADM-D | ||
By: Pickett | H.B. No. 2346 |
|
||
|
||
relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to | ||
commissioned law enforcement officers of a Federal Reserve bank. | ||
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 (h) to read as follows: | ||
(h) A commissioned law enforcement officer of a Federal | ||
Reserve bank is not a peace officer under the laws of this state but | ||
has the powers of arrest, search, and seizure as to any felony or | ||
misdemeanor offense committed under the laws of this state: | ||
(1) when the offense is committed on the premises, | ||
grounds, or property of a Federal Reserve bank or the Federal | ||
Reserve System; or | ||
(2) while the officer is protecting: | ||
(A) the personnel of a Federal Reserve bank or of | ||
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including | ||
members of the board; or | ||
(B) operations conducted by or on behalf of a | ||
Federal Reserve bank or the board of governors. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |