By Gutierrez                                           H.B. No. 452
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement that certain entities licensed by the
 1-3     Texas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies
 1-4     have workers' compensation coverage.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 40, Private Investigators and Private
 1-7     Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil
 1-8     Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-9           (c)  In addition to the requirements of Subsection (a)  of
1-10     this section, a license may not be issued to an applicant unless
1-11     the applicant files with the board evidence that the applicant
1-12     maintains for its employees a policy of workers' compensation
1-13     insurance coverage issued by an insurer licensed to do business in
1-14     this state or an equivalent form of insurance coverage approved by
1-15     the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-17     applies only to a license application filed on or after that date.
1-18     A license application filed before the effective date of this Act
1-19     is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was
1-20     filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.