By Kuempel H.B. No. 1455
75R2220 BEM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of a detection device under the Private
1-3 Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(33), 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 (33) "Detection device" means an electronic device
1-9 used as a part of a burglar or hold-up alarm including any control,
1-10 communications, motion detector, door or window switch, sound
1-11 detector, vibration detector, light beam, pressure mat, wiring, or
1-12 similar device[; or any electronic device used to limit access by
1-13 persons into building structures or gate compounds, including any
1-14 control, communications, motion detector, door or window switch,
1-15 card or proximity readers, push-button key pad entry, gate entry
1-16 device, door exit buttons, or similar device].
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-24 Amend H.B. 1455 as follows:
2-1 (1) On page 1, lines 12-16, strike the type-over which
2-2 strikes "; or any electronic device used to limit access by persons
2-3 into building structures or gate compounds, including any control,
2-4 communications, motion detector, door or window switch, card or
2-5 proximity readers, push button key pad entry, gate entry device,
2-6 door exit buttons, or similar device".
2-7 (2) At the end of Subdivision (33), add "with the exception
2-8 of an electronic device used solely to limit entry into a building
2-9 or gate compound which device does not store or transmit
2-10 information about the entry or the person entering the building or
2-11 gate compound".
2-12 Madden