1-1 By: Haggerty (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 940 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001; 1-3 April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the creation of a criminal offense for impersonating a 1-9 security officer regulated by the Texas Commission on Private 1-10 Security. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter P, Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 1702.3875 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 1702.3875. IMPERSONATING SECURITY OFFICER; OFFENSE. (a) 1-15 A person commits an offense if the person: 1-16 (1) impersonates a commissioned or noncommissioned 1-17 security officer with the intent to induce another to submit to the 1-18 person's pretended authority or to rely on the person's pretended 1-19 acts of a security officer; or 1-20 (2) knowingly purports to exercise any function that 1-21 requires registration as a noncommissioned security officer or a 1-22 security officer commission. 1-23 (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-25 * * * * *