By: West	S.B. No. 284
	(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2013; February 5, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural
	Affairs, and Homeland Security; March 13, 2013, reported favorably
	by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to
	printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
	police officers with the Office of Security and Law Enforcement of
	the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 2.122, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, as amended by Chapters 1223 (S.B. 530) and 1319 (S.B.
	150), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is
	reenacted and amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The following named criminal investigators of the
	United States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the
	powers of arrest, search, and seizure under the laws of this state
	as to felony offenses only:
	(1)  Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
	Investigation;
	(2)  Special Agents of the Secret Service;
	(3)  Special Agents of the United States Immigration
	and Customs Enforcement;
	(4)  Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
	Firearms and Explosives;
	(5)  Special Agents of the United States Drug
	Enforcement Administration;
	(6)  Inspectors of the United States Postal Inspection
	Service;
	(7)  Special Agents of the Criminal Investigation
	Division of the Internal Revenue Service;
	(8)  Civilian Special Agents of the United States Naval
	Criminal Investigative Service;
	(9)  Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States
	Marshals Service;
	(10)  Special Agents of the United States Department of
	State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security;
	(11)  Special Agents of the Treasury Inspector General
	for Tax Administration; [and]
	(12)  Special Agents of the Office of Inspector General
	of the United States Social Security Administration;
	(13) [(12)]  Special Agents of the Office of Inspector
	General of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; and
	(14)  a police officer with the Office of Security and
	Law Enforcement of the United States Department of Veterans
	Affairs.
	SECTION 2.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
	over another Act of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013,
	relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
	codes.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2013.
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