By Gutierrez H.B. No. 2956 75R8795 BEM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirements for applying for a license to operate 1-3 or manage a guard company by certain peace officers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Private Investigators and Private 1-6 Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-8 (f) A peace officer employed by the Department of Public 1-9 Safety who applies for a license to operate or manage a guard 1-10 company is exempt from the requirements of Sections 15(a)(6) and 1-11 (8), 15(c), 18(b)(1), 20, and 39 of this Act. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-13 applies only to an application for a guard company license under 1-14 the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act 1-15 (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), made on or 1-16 after that date. 1-17 SECTION 3. 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.