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. Subsections (a), (c), (d), (f), and (g), Section
51.214, Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) In any municipality with a population of 1.18 million or
more, the governing board of a private, nonprofit medical
corporation, or of the parent corporation of such medical
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
the medical corporation's or parent corporation's [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 or parent corporation, may employ and
commission police or security personnel to enforce the law of this
state within the jurisdiction designated by Subsection (c).
(c) The jurisdiction of an officer commissioned under this
section is limited to:
(1) property under the control and jurisdiction of the
private, nonprofit medical corporation or its parent corporation or
any entity legally affiliated with or owned, leased, managed, or
controlled by the medical corporation or its parent 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 by Subdivision (1); and
(3) any other location in which the officer is
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 medical corporation or its parent corporation,
provided that the assigned duties are consistent with the mission
of the medical corporation or its parent corporation and are being
performed within a county in which the medical corporation or its
parent corporation owns real property.
(d) An officer commissioned [by a medical corporation]
under this section is not entitled to compensation or benefits
provided by this state or a political subdivision of this state.
(f) A [medical corporation may not commission a] person may
not be commissioned under this section unless the person obtains a
peace officer license issued by the Commission on Law Enforcement
Officer Standards and Education. The employing medical corporation
or parent corporation shall pay to the Commission on Law
Enforcement Officer Standards and Education on behalf of an
employee any fees that are necessary to obtain a required license.
(g) A person's commission and any authority to act as an
officer under this section are automatically revoked if the
person's employment [with a medical corporation] is terminated for
any reason.
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, 2009.