Bill Text: TX HB3668 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of peace officer for purposes of intercepting or collecting information in relation to certain communications in an investigation conducted by an arson investigating unit.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB3668 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3668-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3668 | ||
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| relating to the definition of peace officer for purposes of | ||
| intercepting or collecting information in relation to certain | ||
| communications in an investigation conducted by an arson | ||
| investigating unit. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1(2), Article 18.21, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (2) "Authorized peace officer" means: | ||
| (A) a sheriff or a sheriff's deputy; | ||
| (B) a constable or deputy constable; | ||
| (C) a marshal or police officer of an | ||
| incorporated city; | ||
| (D) a ranger or officer commissioned by the | ||
| Public Safety Commission or the director of the Department of | ||
| Public Safety; | ||
| (E) an investigator of a prosecutor's office; | ||
| (F) a law enforcement agent of the Alcoholic | ||
| Beverage Commission; | ||
| (G) a law enforcement officer commissioned by the | ||
| Parks and Wildlife Commission; | ||
| (H) an enforcement officer appointed by the | ||
| inspector general of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under | ||
| Section 493.019, Government Code; [ |
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| (I) an investigator commissioned by the attorney | ||
| general under Section 402.009, Government Code; or | ||
| (J) a member of an arson investigating unit | ||
| commissioned by a municipality, a county, or the 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3668 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3668 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
