By: Haggerty (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 1241

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2007; May 8, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 18, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 18, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the duty of the security department of a private business to maintain criminal history record information for security department employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 1702.323, Occupations Code, is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:

(c) The security department of a private business may not hire or employ an individual to perform a duty described by Section 1702.222 if the individual has been convicted of a crime that would otherwise preclude the individual from being registered under this chapter. The private business shall maintain the individual's criminal history record on file at the business and shall make the record available for inspection by the Department of Public Safety.

(c-1) Although the security department of a private business that hires or employs an individual as a private security officer to possess a firearm in the course and scope of the individual's duties is required to apply for a security officer commission for the individual under this chapter, the security department of a private business is not required to apply to the commission for any license under this chapter.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act by the amendment of Section 1702.323, Occupations Code, applies to an individual employed by the security department of a private business on or after the effective date of this Act regardless of the date on which the individual began employment.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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