| 1 | 1 | | By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1600 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the registration of peace officers as private security |
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| 11 | 11 | | officers. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 1702.322, Occupations Code, is amended |
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| 14 | 14 | | to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | Sec. 1702.322. LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. This chapter |
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| 16 | 16 | | does not apply to: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (1) a person who has full-time employment as a peace |
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| 18 | 18 | | officer and who receives compensation for private employment on an |
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| 19 | 19 | | individual or an independent contractor basis as a patrolman, |
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| 20 | 20 | | guard, extra job coordinator, or watchman if the officer: |
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| 21 | 21 | | (A) is employed in an employee-employer |
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| 22 | 22 | | relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis: |
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| 23 | 23 | | (i) directly by the recipient of the |
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| 24 | 24 | | services; or |
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| 25 | 25 | | (ii) by a company licensed under this |
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| 26 | 26 | | chapter; |
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| 27 | 27 | | (B) is not in the employ of another peace |
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| 28 | 28 | | officer; |
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| 29 | 29 | | (C) is not a reserve peace officer; and |
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| 30 | 30 | | (D) works as a peace officer on the average of at |
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| 31 | 31 | | least 32 hours a week, is compensated by the state or a political |
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| 32 | 32 | | subdivision of the state at least at the minimum wage, and is |
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| 33 | 33 | | entitled to all employee benefits offered to a peace officer by the |
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| 34 | 34 | | state or political subdivision; |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) a reserve peace officer while the reserve officer |
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| 36 | 36 | | is performing guard, patrolman, or watchman duties for a county and |
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| 37 | 37 | | is being compensated solely by that county; |
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| 38 | 38 | | (3) a peace officer acting in an official capacity in |
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| 39 | 39 | | responding to a burglar alarm or detection device; or |
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| 40 | 40 | | (4) a person engaged in the business of electronic |
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| 41 | 41 | | monitoring of an individual as a condition of that individual's |
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| 42 | 42 | | community supervision, parole, mandatory supervision, or release |
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| 43 | 43 | | on bail, if the person does not perform any other service that |
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| 44 | 44 | | requires a license under this chapter. |
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| 45 | 45 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 46 | 46 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 47 | 47 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 48 | 48 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 49 | 49 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 50 | 50 | | * * * * * |
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