Bill Text: TX HB2346 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to commissioned law enforcement officers of a Federal Reserve bank.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2346 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2346-Introduced.html
| 84R10318 ADM-D | ||
| By: Pickett | H.B. No. 2346 | |
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| relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to | ||
| commissioned law enforcement officers of a Federal Reserve bank. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) A commissioned law enforcement officer of a Federal | ||
| Reserve bank is not a peace officer under the laws of this state but | ||
| has the powers of arrest, search, and seizure as to any felony or | ||
| misdemeanor offense committed under the laws of this state: | ||
| (1) when the offense is committed on the premises, | ||
| grounds, or property of a Federal Reserve bank or the Federal | ||
| Reserve System; or | ||
| (2) while the officer is protecting: | ||
| (A) the personnel of a Federal Reserve bank or of | ||
| the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including | ||
| members of the board; or | ||
| (B) operations conducted by or on behalf of a | ||
| Federal Reserve bank or the board of governors. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
