By Carter H.B. No. 2880 75R8784 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to regulation by the Board of Private Investigators and 1-3 Private Security Agencies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Private Investigators and Private Security 1-6 Agencies Act, Article 4413 (29)(bb), Vernon's Annotated Civil 1-7 Statutes, is amended by amending Section 47 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 47. A suspended license is subject to expiration and 1-9 shall be renewed as provided in this Act, but such renewal does not 1-10 entitle the licensee, while the license remains suspended and until 1-11 it is reinstated, to engage in the licensed activity, or in any 1-12 other activity or conduct in violation of the order or judgment by 1-13 which the license was suspended except that a licensee may continue 1-14 to perform monitoring of existing alarm contracts or continue to 1-15 contract for the monitoring of existing alarm contracts for thirty 1-16 days following the suspension. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.