By: West S.B. No. 1735
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the employment and commissioning of law enforcement
personnel to provide security services to certain educational
institutions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.214(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) In any municipality with a population of 1.18 million or
more according to the last federal census, the governing board of a
private, nonprofit medical corporation (or its parent corporation)
that provides police or security services for an institution of
higher education or a private postsecondary educational
institution [and other entities] located within one of its [the
same] medical complexes [complex], or that provides police or
security services for another medical complex legally affiliated
with or owned, leased, managed or controlled by the [a branch of
that] medical corporation, may employ and commission police or
security personnel to enforce the law of this state within the
jurisdiction designated by Subsection (c).
SECTION 2. Section 51.214(c), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The jurisdiction of an officer commissioned under this
section is limited to:
(1) the property under the control and jurisdiction of
the private, nonprofit medical corporation or any entity legally
affiliated with or owned, leased, managed[,] or controlled by the
medical corporation; [and]
(2) a street or alley that abuts the property or an
easement in or a right-of-way over or through the property
described in subsection (c)(1); and
(3) any other location in which the officer is
otherwise performing duties assigned to the officer by the private,
nonprofit medical corporation (or its parent corporation),
regardless of whether the officer is on property under the control
and jurisdiction of the private, nonprofit medical corporation, but
provided these duties are consistent with the mission of the
private, nonprofit medical corporation and are being performed
within a county in which the private, nonprofit medical corporation
owns real property.
SECTION 3. 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, 2009.