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Senate Bill 1600 |
Senate Author: Whitmire |
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Effective: 6-17-2011 |
House Sponsor: King, Phil et al. |
Senate Bill 1600 amends the Occupations Code to make the Private Security Act inapplicable to 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 is employed in an employee‑employer relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis by a company licensed under the act; is not in the employ of another peace officer; is not a reserve peace officer; and 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 a political subdivision.