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Amend HB 2833 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering the 
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Section 1702.322, Occupations Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 1702.322.  LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.  This chapter 
does not apply to:  
		(1)  a person who is a chief of police, sheriff, 
constable, or other chief administrator of a law enforcement agency 
in this state or is appointed, elected, or employed by the chief 
administrator of a law enforcement agency [has full-time 
employment] as a peace officer, as defined by Section 1701.001, in 
accordance with the licensing requirements adopted under rules of 
the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education 
and who receives compensation for private employment on an 
individual or an independent contractor basis as a patrolman, 
guard, extra job coordinator, or watchman if [the officer]:
			(A)  the officer is employed by the private 
employer in an employee-employer relationship or [employed] on an 
individual contractual basis;
			(B)  the private employment does not require the 
officer to be [is not] in the employ of another peace officer;
			(C)  the officer is not a reserve peace officer; 
and                
			(D)  the officer works for the law enforcement 
agency [as a peace officer] on the average of at least 32 hours a 
week, is compensated by the state or a political subdivision of the 
state at least at the minimum wage, and is entitled to all employee 
benefits offered to a peace officer by the state or political 
subdivision;
		(2)  a reserve peace officer while the reserve officer 
is performing guard, patrolman, or watchman duties for a county and 
is being compensated solely by that county;
		(3)  a peace officer acting in an official capacity in 
responding to a burglar alarm or detection device; or
		(4)  a person engaged in the business of electronic 
monitoring of an individual as a condition of that individual's 
community supervision, parole, mandatory supervision, or release 
on bail, if the person does not perform any other service that 
requires a license under this chapter.