Texas bill would outlaw some TSA searches

[fatbuckRTO]

This bill, H.B. No. 1937, is currently going before the Transportation and Homeland Security Committee in the Texas Senate.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodo...pdf#navpanes=0

A person who is a public servant commits an offense if the person:
(1) while acting under color of the person ’s office or
employment [he]:
(A) [(1)] intentionally subjects another person
to mistreatment or to arrest, detention, search, seizure,
dispossession, assessment, or lien that the actor [he] knows is
unlawful;
(B) [(2)] intentionally denies or impedes
another person in the exercise or enjoyment of any right,
privilege, power, or immunity, knowing the actor ’s [his] conduct is
unlawful; or
(C) [(3)] intentionally subjects another person
to sexual harassment; or
(2) while acting under color of the person ’s office or
employment without probable cause to believe the other person
committed an offense:
(A) performs a search for the purpose of granting
access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation;
and
(B) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(i) touches the anus, sexual organ,
buttocks, or breast of the other person, including touching through
clothing; or
(ii) touches the other person in a manner
that would be offensive to a reasonable person.
(b) For purposes of this section, a person who is a public
servant acts under color of the person ’s [his] office or employment
if the person [he] acts or purports to act in an official capacity
or takes advantage of such actual or purported capacity.

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