By Horn H.B. No. 2082 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the qualifications for a license issued by the Texas 1-3 Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14, Private Investigators and Private 1-6 Security Agencies Act (Article 4413 (29bb), V.T.C.S.), is amended 1-7 by amending Subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows: 1-8 (b) An applicant who applies for a license to engage in the 1-9 business of an investigation company or his manager shall have 1-10 three (3) years consecutive experience prior to the date of said 1-11 application in the investigative field, as an employee, manager, or 1-12 owner of an investigations company, or have successfully completed 1-13 a training program approved by the board, or other requirements as 1-14 shall be set by the board. 1-15 (c) An applicant who applies for a license to engage in the 1-16 business of a security services contractor or his manager shall 1-17 have two (2) consecutive years experience prior to the date of said 1-18 application in each security services field for which he applies, 1-19 as an employee, manager, or the owner of a security services 1-20 contractor, or have successfully completed a training program 1-21 approved by the board, or other requirements as shall be set by the 1-22 board. The experience of the applicant must have been obtained 1-23 legally and must be reviewed by the board or by the director and 2-1 determined to be adequate to qualify the applicant to engage in the 2-2 business of a security services contractor. 2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.