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.