Bill Text: TX SB1838 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - Postponed [SB1838 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1838-Comm_Sub.html
By: Menéndez, et al. | S.B. No. 1838 | |
(Workman) | ||
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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. |