By Nelson S.B. No. 1047
74R7271 MRB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the qualifications for a license for an investigations
1-3 company.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14(b), Private Investigators and Private
1-6 Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil
1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) An applicant who applies for a license to engage in the
1-9 business of an investigations 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 shall have successfully
1-13 completed a 2,700 clock-hour training program that is provided by a
1-14 licensed school and certified instructors and that meets all
1-15 <other> requirements as shall be set by the board. The experience
1-16 of the applicant or the documentation supporting the successful
1-17 completion of an approved training program by the applicant must be
1-18 reviewed by the board or by the director, and be determined to be
1-19 adequate to qualify the applicant to engage in the business of an
1-20 investigations company.
1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by the amendment by this
1-22 Act of Section 14(b), Private Investigators and Private Security
1-23 Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-24 applies only to an applicant for an investigations company license
2-1 who files the application with the Texas Board of Private
2-2 Investigators and Private Security Agencies on or after September
2-3 1, 1995.
2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.