Bill Text: TX HB2801 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to airport police forces and security vehicles, including the authority to commission peace officers and the rights, privileges, and duties of those officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB2801 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2801-Introduced.html
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By: Goldman | H.B. No. 2801 |
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relating to airport police forces and security vehicles, including | ||
the authority to commission peace officers and the rights, | ||
privileges, and duties of those officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 2.12. WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS. The following are peace | ||
officers: | ||
(1) sheriffs, their deputies, and those reserve | ||
deputies who hold a permanent peace officer license issued under | ||
Chapter 1701, Occupations Code; | ||
(2) constables, deputy constables, and those reserve | ||
deputy constables who hold a permanent peace officer license issued | ||
under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code; | ||
(3) marshals or police officers of an incorporated | ||
city, town, or village, and those reserve municipal police officers | ||
who hold a permanent peace officer license issued under Chapter | ||
1701, Occupations Code; | ||
(4) rangers, officers, and members of the reserve | ||
officer corps commissioned by the Public Safety Commission and the | ||
Director of the Department of Public Safety; | ||
(5) investigators of the district attorneys', criminal | ||
district attorneys', and county attorneys' offices; | ||
(6) law enforcement agents of the Texas Alcoholic | ||
Beverage Commission; | ||
(7) each member of an arson investigating unit | ||
commissioned by a city, a county, or the state; | ||
(8) officers commissioned under Section 37.081, | ||
Education Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code; | ||
(9) officers commissioned by the General Services | ||
Commission; | ||
(10) law enforcement officers commissioned by the | ||
Parks and Wildlife Commission; | ||
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Chapter 23, Transportation Code [ |
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security officers; | ||
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commissioned as peace officers by the comptroller; | ||
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and improvement district under Section 49.216, Water Code; | ||
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trustees under Chapter 54, Transportation Code; | ||
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Medical Board; | ||
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(A) the board of managers of the Dallas County | ||
Hospital District, the Tarrant County Hospital District, the Bexar | ||
County Hospital District, or the El Paso County Hospital District | ||
under Section 281.057, Health and Safety Code; | ||
(B) the board of directors of the Ector County | ||
Hospital District under Section 1024.117, Special District Local | ||
Laws Code; and | ||
(C) the board of directors of the Midland County | ||
Hospital District of Midland County, Texas, under Section 1061.121, | ||
Special District Local Laws Code; | ||
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Subchapter E, Chapter 351, Local Government Code; | ||
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Racing Commission; | ||
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Occupations Code; | ||
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body of a metropolitan rapid transit authority under Section | ||
451.108, Transportation Code, or by a regional transportation | ||
authority under Section 452.110, Transportation Code; | ||
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attorney general under Section 402.009, Government Code; | ||
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commissioned as peace officers under Chapter 466, Government Code; | ||
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under Subchapter F, Chapter 53, Government Code; | ||
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marshal under Chapter 417, Government Code; | ||
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commissioner of insurance under Section 701.104, Insurance Code; | ||
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general commissioned by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department as | ||
officers under Sections 242.102 and 243.052, Human Resources Code; | ||
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general of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under Section | ||
493.019, Government Code; | ||
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Commission on Law Enforcement under Section 1701.160, Occupations | ||
Code; | ||
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the Texas Private Security Board under Section 1702.061, | ||
Occupations Code; | ||
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inspectors, or investigators commissioned by an emergency services | ||
district under Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code; | ||
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of Dental Examiners under Section 254.013, Occupations Code, | ||
subject to the limitations imposed by that section; | ||
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Juvenile Justice Department as officers under Section 221.011, | ||
Human Resources Code; and | ||
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inspectors, or investigators commissioned by a county under | ||
Subchapter B, Chapter 352, Local Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 22.091, Transportation Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 723 (S.B. 1024), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2017, is redesignated as Section 22.092, Transportation | ||
Code, to read as follows: | ||
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this section, "airport security vehicle" means a motor vehicle | ||
that: | ||
(1) is owned or leased by a joint board; and | ||
(2) has been designated or authorized by the joint | ||
board. | ||
(b) An airport security vehicle may be equipped with | ||
flashing blue and amber lights visible from directly in front of the | ||
center of the vehicle. | ||
SECTION 3. The heading to Chapter 23, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 23. AIRPORT POLICE FORCES [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 23.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 23.001. ESTABLISHMENT OF AIRPORT POLICE [ |
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FORCE; COMMISSIONING OF PEACE OFFICERS. The governing body of a | ||
joint board, as defined by Section 22.071, or other political | ||
subdivision that operates an airport served by an air carrier | ||
certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration [ |
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Transportation may: | ||
(1) establish an airport police [ |
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(2) commission and employ a peace officer, subject to | ||
Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, if the employee takes and files the | ||
oath required of peace officers [ |
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SECTION 5. Sections 23.002 and 23.003, Transportation Code, | ||
are repealed. | ||
SECTION 6. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |