By: Raymond, McLaughlin H.B. No. 4023
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4023:
 
  By:  Hefner C.S.H.B. No. 4023
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the exemption of certain reserve peace officers from
  regulation as private security personnel.
         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 has full-time employment as a peace
  officer 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)  is employed in an employee-employer
  relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis:
                           (i)  directly by the recipient of the
  services; or
                           (ii)  by a company licensed under this
  chapter;
                     (B)  is not in the employ of another peace
  officer;
                     (C)  is not a reserve peace officer; and
                     (D)  works 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, if:
                     (A)  [while] the reserve peace officer is
  appointed by a state law enforcement agency or a law enforcement
  agency in the county in which the officer is performing guard,
  patrolman, or watchman duties for any person or a state agency or
  political subdivision;
                     (B)  the reserve peace officer [a county and] is
  being compensated solely by the state agency, or political
  subdivision described by Paragraph (A) [that county];
                     (C)  the chief administrative officer of the
  reserve peace officer's appointing law enforcement agency approves
  the reserve peace officer to perform the duties described by
  Paragraph (A); and
                     (D)  the duties described by Paragraph (A) are
  performed in a county that:
                           (i)  has a population of at least 250,000 but
  not more than 650,000; and
                           (ii)  is adjacent to an international
  border;
               (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, 2025.