Bill Text: TX SB1600 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Relating to the registration of peace officers as private security officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1600 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1600-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the registration of peace officers as private security officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1600 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1600-Comm_Sub.html
By: Whitmire | S.B. No. 1600 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.) |
|
||
|
||
relating to the registration of peace officers as private security | ||
officers. | ||
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, or watchman duties for a county and | ||
is being compensated solely by that county; | ||
(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 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, 2011. | ||
* * * * * |