By Coleman H.B. No. 3528 76R6428(1) PEP A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the places where certain private investigators may 1-3 carry a concealed handgun. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.06, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) It is a defense to prosecution for an offense under this 1-8 section that: 1-9 (1) the property on which the offense occurred was 1-10 government property; and 1-11 (2) at the time of the commission of the offense, the 1-12 license holder was a private investigator licensed under the 1-13 Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act (Article 1-14 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) and was engaged in 1-15 providing services as a private investigator. 1-16 SECTION 2. Section 46.035, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-17 Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-18 (j) It is a defense to prosecution for an offense under 1-19 Subsection (b)(3) that at the time of the commission of the 1-20 offense, the license holder was a private investigator licensed 1-21 under the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act 1-22 (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) who carried a 1-23 handgun only on that portion of the premises of a correctional 1-24 facility that is inaccessible to inmates. 1-25 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-26 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 2-1 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 2-2 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 2-3 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 2-4 purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the 2-5 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred 2-6 before that date. 2-7 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-8 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.