By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1588
       74R5281 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the adoption of certain security measures to protect
    1-3  customers of unmanned teller machines.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 3a, Chapter IX, The Texas Banking Code
    1-6  (Article 342-903a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Section 13 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 13.  (a)  The State Banking Board shall adopt rules
    1-9  establishing security requirements to be implemented by banks for
   1-10  the operation of unmanned teller machines.  The board may require
   1-11  the banks to install and maintain security devices to be operated
   1-12  in conjunction with the machines for the protection of customers
   1-13  using the machines, including:
   1-14              (1)  video surveillance equipment that is maintained in
   1-15  working order and operated continuously during the hours of
   1-16  operation of a machine; and
   1-17              (2)  adequate lighting around the premises that
   1-18  contains a machine.
   1-19        (b)  Failure by a bank to comply with the rules adopted by
   1-20  the State Banking Board under this section constitutes grounds for
   1-21  the imposition of a civil penalty under Section 7 of this article.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
   1-23  section, this Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-24        (b)  Section 13(b), Article 3a, Chapter IX, The Texas Banking
    2-1  Code  (Article 342-903a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added
    2-2  by this Act, takes effect January 1, 1996.  A bank that, on the
    2-3  effective date of this Act, is operating an unmanned teller machine
    2-4  that does not comply with the security requirements adopted by rule
    2-5  by the State Banking Board shall bring the machine into compliance
    2-6  not later than January 1, 1996.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.