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      By Hochberg                                     H.B. No. 3416

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulation of certain private investigators and

 1-3     private security consultants.

 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(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 3D to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 3D.  LIMITATION.  A private security consultant who

 1-9     obtains information with reference to crimes or losses strictly for

1-10     the purpose of offering advice or services in the field of private

1-11     security is not an investigations company unless the consultant

1-12     otherwise meets the definition of an investigations company under

1-13     this Act.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.