By: Raymond H.B. No. 4023
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the exemption of certain reserve peace officers from
regulation as private security personnel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1702.322, Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec 1702.322. LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. This chapter does
not apply to:
(1) a person who has full-time employment as a peace
officer and who receives compensation for private employment on an
individual or an independent contractor basis as a patrolman,
guard, extra job coordinator, or watchman if the officer:
(A) is employed in an employee-employer
relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis:
(i) directly by the recipient of the
services; or
(ii) by a company licensed under this
chapter;
(B) is not in the employ of another peace
officer;
(C) is not a reserve peace officer; and
(D) works as a peace officer on the average of at
least 32 hours a week, is compensated by the state or a political
subdivision of the state at least at the minimum wage, and is
entitled to all employee benefits offered to a peace officer by the
state or political subdivision;
(2) a reserve peace officer while the reserve officer
is performing guard, patrolman, extra job coordinator, or watchman
duties for any person or a state agency or political subdivision [a
county] and is being compensated [solely] by that person or agency
or subdivision [county]; and
(A) the chief administrator of the agency
granting the reserve status approves; and
(B) the duties are performed in a county with a
population of at least 250,000 and no greater than 650,000 and
located on an international border;
(3) a peace officer acting in an official capacity in
responding to a burglar alarm or detection device; or
(4) a person engaged in the business of electronic
monitoring of an individual as a condition of that individual's
community supervision, parole, mandatory supervision, or release
on bail, if the person does not perform any other service that
requires a license under this chapter.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.