Bill Text: TX SB1600 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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
82R29612 SLB-F | ||
By: Whitmire | S.B. No. 1600 | |
(King of Parker, Miller of Erath) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1600: No. |
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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 is a chief of police, sheriff, | ||
constable, or other chief administrator of a law enforcement agency | ||
in this state or is appointed or employed by the chief administrator | ||
of a law enforcement agency [ |
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officer, as defined by Section 1701.001, in accordance with the | ||
licensing requirements provided for by the rules of the Commission | ||
on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education 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 [ |
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(A) the peace officer is employed by the private | ||
employer in an employee-employer relationship or [ |
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individual contractual basis: | ||
(i) directly by the recipient of the | ||
services; or | ||
(ii) by a company licensed under this | ||
chapter; | ||
(B) the private employment does not require the | ||
peace officer to be [ |
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(C) the peace officer is not a reserve peace | ||
officer; and | ||
(D) the peace officer works for the law | ||
enforcement agency that appointed or employs the [ |
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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. |