SB906

SB906 lets the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo’s tribal council employ and commission peace officers to enforce Texas law within its reservation. It adds the Pueblo to the existing law that already authorizes the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to do so. The authority is optional: the bill says the council “may” employ and commission officers. Signed May 21, 2025, it took effect September 1, 2025. Final act; History.

The addition brings these officers under the rest of article 2A.003, which SB906 does not rewrite. That article gives commissioned officers peace-officer powers, privileges and immunities; permits reservation arrests under the existing Chapter 14 warrantless-arrest rules and traffic enforcement; and permits arrests outside the reservation when the officer is summoned by, or is assisting, another law-enforcement agency. It is not unrestricted independent statewide enforcement authority. Full article and its limits.

The officers must meet Texas Commission on Law Enforcement minimum and licensing standards. When assigned to duty, they must take and file the required oath and execute and file a $1,000 bond payable to the governor with at least two sufficient sureties, conditioned on fair, impartial and faithful performance. The article allows an injured person to sue on the bond until its amount is recovered. It also says officers commissioned under the article are not entitled to the state benefits normally provided by the state to peace officers. SB906 does not appropriate money for hiring or create an entitlement to those benefits. Existing safeguards and benefit limitation; Narrow statutory addition.