By Gutierrez                                    H.B. No. 2956

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                                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.