By Ratliff                                       S.B. No. 691

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                                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.