1-1     By:  Ratliff, Shapiro, Patterson                       S.B. No. 691

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 1997; February 25, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 15, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro

 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 691 by creating a new SECTION 1 to read as follows

 1-8     and renumbering the subsequent sections accordingly:

 1-9           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (5), Section 2, Private Investigators

1-10     and Private Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's

1-11     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-12                 (5)  "Alarm systems company" means a [any] person who

1-13     [that sells,] installs, services, monitors, or responds to alarm

1-14     systems, burglar alarm signal devices, detection devices, burglar

1-15     alarms, robbery alarms, television cameras, or still cameras used

1-16     to signal the presence of an emergency or other hazard requiring

1-17     urgent attention and to which law enforcement or other emergency

1-18     services are expected to respond[, or any other electrical,

1-19     mechanical, or electronic device used:]

1-20                       [(A)  to prevent or detect burglary, theft,

1-21     robbery, shoplifting, pilferage, shrinkage, or other losses of that

1-22     type;]

1-23                       [(B)  to prevent or detect intrusion; or]

1-24                       [(C)  primarily to detect or summon aid for other

1-25     emergencies].

1-26                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-27                                   AN ACT

1-28     relating to the regulation of a detection device under the Private

1-29     Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act.

1-30           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-31           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (33), Section 2, Private

1-32     Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act (Article

1-33     4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as

1-34     follows:

1-35                 (33)  "Detection device" means an electronic device

1-36     used as a part of a burglar or hold-up alarm including any control,

1-37     communications, motion detector, door or window switch, sound

1-38     detector, vibration detector, light beam, pressure mat, wiring, or

1-39     similar device[; or any electronic device used to limit access by

1-40     persons into building structures or gate compounds, including any

1-41     control, communications, motion detector, door or window switch,

1-42     card or proximity readers, push-button key pad entry, gate entry

1-43     device, door exit buttons, or similar device].

1-44           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-45           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-46     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-47     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-48     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-49     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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