Bill Text: TX HB538 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to judicial and law enforcement authority in certain municipalities on a segment of a highway or street that abuts property located in the municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB538 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB538-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Spitzer | H.B. No. 538 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 538: | |||
By: Herrero | C.S.H.B. No. 538 |
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relating to judicial and law enforcement authority in certain | ||
municipalities on a segment of a highway or street that abuts | ||
property located in the municipality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 4.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
(h) For the purposes of Subsection (b)(1), the territorial | ||
limits of a municipality with a population of less than 2,000 that | ||
is located in two counties include: | ||
(1) the entire width of a segment of highway or street, | ||
as defined by Section 541.302, Transportation Code, that is | ||
partially located in the municipality; or | ||
(2) a segment of highway or street, as defined by | ||
Section 541.302, Transportation Code, that abuts property located | ||
in the municipality. | ||
SECTION 2. Article 14.03(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows: | ||
(4) For purposes of Subdivision (2), the jurisdiction | ||
of a peace officer employed by a municipality described by Article | ||
4.14(h) includes the area included in the territorial limits of the | ||
municipality under that article. | ||
SECTION 3. Article 45.019, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
(h) A complaint filed in municipal court in a municipality | ||
described by Article 4.14(h) must allege that the offense was | ||
committed in the territorial limits of the municipality, which | ||
include the area described by that article, in which the complaint | ||
is made. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 29.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
(j) For the purposes of Subsection (b), the territorial | ||
limits of a municipality described by Article 4.14(h), Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure, include the area described by that article. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of | ||
this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of | ||
this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 6. 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. |