By: West S.B. No. 284
(Fletcher)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
police officers with the Office of Security and Law Enforcement of
the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Article 2.122, Code of Criminal
Procedure, as amended by Chapters 1223 (S.B. 530) and 1319 (S.B.
150), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is
reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(a) The following named criminal investigators of the
United States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
powers of arrest, search, and seizure under the laws of this state
as to felony offenses only:
(1) Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation;
(2) Special Agents of the Secret Service;
(3) Special Agents of the United States Immigration
and Customs Enforcement;
(4) Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives;
(5) Special Agents of the United States Drug
Enforcement Administration;
(6) Inspectors of the United States Postal Inspection
Service;
(7) Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Internal Revenue Service;
(8) Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
Criminal Investigative Service;
(9) Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States
Marshals Service;
(10) Special Agents of the United States Department of
State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security;
(11) Special Agents of the Treasury Inspector General
for Tax Administration; [and]
(12) Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General
of the United States Social Security Administration;
(13) [(12)] Special Agents of the Office of Inspector
General of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; and
(14) a police officer with the Office of Security and
Law Enforcement of the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs.
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
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, 2013.