81R8337 YDB-F
 
  By: Driver H.B. No. 1491
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to exemption from application of the Private Security Act
  of certain peace officers employed by a law enforcement agency.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.