Bill Text: TX SB308 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 308 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of campus police departments at private institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB308 Detail]

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	By: Whitmire, Ellis	S.B. No. 308
	(In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2015; February 2, 2015,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	March 19, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 19, 2015,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 308	By: Whitmire


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the powers and duties of campus police departments at
	private institutions of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 51.212, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
	follows:
	(b) Any officer commissioned under the provisions of this
	section is vested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities
	of peace officers if the officer:
	(1) is on the property under the control and
	jurisdiction of the respective private institution of higher
	education or is otherwise performing duties assigned to the officer
	by the institution, regardless of whether the officer is on
	property under the control and jurisdiction of the institution, but
	provided these duties are [~~consistent with the educational mission~~
	~~of the institution and are~~] being performed within a county in which
	the institution has land; or
	(2) to the extent authorized by Section 51.2125, is:
	(A) requested by another law enforcement agency
	to provide assistance in enforcing state or local law, including a
	municipal ordinance, and is acting in response to that request; or
	(B) otherwise assisting another law enforcement
	agency in enforcing a law described by Paragraph (A).
	(f) A campus police department of a private institution of
	higher education is a law enforcement agency and a governmental
	body for purposes of Chapter 552, Government Code, only with
	respect to information relating solely to law enforcement
	activities.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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