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.