SRC-TNM S.B. 922 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 922
By: Cain
State Affairs
4-10-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, full-time peace officers who work extra employment as private
security officers are exempt from having to be licensed under the Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act. An officer who owns or
operates a security company is not exempt and still has to be licensed.
However, it is unclear whether an officer who simply coordinates and
schedules other peace officers for extra employment is exempt from having
to be licensed under the Private Investigators and Private Security
Agencies Act.  Typically, an officer will coordinate an off-duty security
job and be paid for this service by the private employer.  The coordinator
does not pay the officers working the job, but simply schedules and
coordinates the job.  The private employer still continues to pay each
officer working the job on an individual basis.  S.B. 922 would clarify
that full-time peace officers who coordinate extra security employment
jobs are exempt from having to be licensed under the Private Investigators
and Private Security Agencies Act. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 922 outlines provisions regarding an exemption from
regulation under the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies
Act for certain peace officers. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 3(a), Article 4413(29bb), V.T.C.S. (Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act), to provide that this Act
does not apply to a person who has full-time employment as a peace
officer, who receives compensation for private employment on an individual
or an independent contractor basis as a patrolman, guard, watchman, or
extra job coordinator in certain instances. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.