By: Workman (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 3668
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015;
May 19, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Administration; May 24, 2015, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 24, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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; [or]
(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.
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