Bill Text: TX HB626 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to certain federal law enforcement officers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-09 - Considered in Calendars [HB626 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB626-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Bell of Montgomery | H.B. No. 626 | |
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| relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to | ||
| certain federal law enforcement officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 2A.002(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The following criminal investigators of the United | ||
| States are not peace officers but have the powers of arrest, search, | ||
| and seizure under the laws of this state as to felony offenses only: | ||
| (1) a special agent of the Federal Bureau of | ||
| Investigation; | ||
| (2) a special agent of the Secret Service; | ||
| (3) a special agent of United States Immigration and | ||
| Customs Enforcement; | ||
| (4) a special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, | ||
| Firearms and Explosives; | ||
| (5) a special agent of the United States Drug | ||
| Enforcement Administration; | ||
| (6) an inspector of the United States Postal | ||
| Inspection Service; | ||
| (7) a special agent of the Criminal Investigation | ||
| Division of the Internal Revenue Service; | ||
| (8) a civilian special agent of the United States | ||
| Naval Criminal Investigative Service; | ||
| (9) a marshal or deputy marshal of the United States | ||
| Marshals Service; | ||
| (10) a special agent of the United States Department | ||
| of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security; | ||
| (11) a special agent of the Treasury Inspector General | ||
| for Tax Administration; | ||
| (12) a special agent of the Office of Inspector | ||
| General of the United States Social Security Administration; | ||
| (13) a special agent of the Office of Inspector | ||
| General of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; | ||
| (14) a special agent of the Office of Inspector | ||
| General of the United States Department of Agriculture; | ||
| (15) a special agent of the Office of Export | ||
| Enforcement of the United States Department of Commerce; | ||
| (16) a special agent of the Criminal Investigation | ||
| Command of the United States Army; | ||
| (17) a special agent of the Office of Special | ||
| Investigations of the United States Air Force; [ |
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| (18) a police officer with the Office of Security and | ||
| Law Enforcement of the United States Department of Veterans | ||
| Affairs; | ||
| (19) a federal air marshal of the Transportation | ||
| Security Administration; and | ||
| (20) a police officer or detective of the United | ||
| States Department of Defense, or any component agency of the United | ||
| States Department of Defense. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
