Bill Text: TX HB902 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB902 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB902-Introduced.html

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89R1394 AJZ-D
By: Thompson H.B. No. 902

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the powers and duties of peace officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 2A.051, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 2A.051. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF PEACE
OFFICERS. Each peace officer [shall]:
(1) shall preserve the peace within the officer's
jurisdiction using all lawful means;
(2) may, if authorized [in every case authorized by
this code], interfere without a warrant to prevent or suppress
crime;
(3) shall execute all lawful process issued to the
officer by a magistrate or court;
(4) shall give notice to an appropriate magistrate of
all offenses committed in the officer's jurisdiction, if [where]
the officer has probable cause [good reason] to believe there has
been a violation of the penal law;
(5) may, if [when] authorized [by law], arrest an
offender without a warrant so the offender may be taken before the
proper magistrate or court and be tried;
(6) shall take possession of a child under Article
63.00905(g) [63.009(g)]; [and]
(7) shall, on a request made by the Texas Civil
Commitment Office, execute an emergency detention order issued by
that office under Section 841.0837, Health and Safety Code;
(8) shall make an identification as a peace officer
before taking any action within the course and scope of the
officer's official duties unless the identification would render
the action impracticable; and
(9) shall intervene to prevent an action by another
peace officer if:
(A) the action includes the use of force in an
amount that exceeds that which is reasonable under the
circumstances;
(B) the intervening officer knows or should know
that the other officer's action violates department policy or
local, state, or federal law; or
(C) the action puts a person at risk of bodily
injury, as that term is defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, and is
not:
(i) immediately necessary to avoid imminent
bodily injury to a peace officer or other person; or
(ii) required to apprehend a person
suspected of committing an offense.
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.