By Gutierrez H.B. No. 452 76R1150 JMM-D 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.