HBA-NIK H.B. 3590 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3590
By: Keel
Public Safety
4/15/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, peace officers are authorized to provide certain types of
security services during their offduty hours. The authority to provide
guard services is very clear, but the authority to provide other
security-related services, such as consulting on the placement of security
lighting and fencing, is not clear.  H.B. 3590 clarifies that the authority
for peace officers to provide off-duty security services includes security
consultant activities.  This bill does not rescind the prohibition against
officers owning their own security companies. 
   
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Subsection (a), Section 3, Private Investigators and
Private Security Agencies Act, V.T.C.S., Article 4413 (29bb), to include a
full-time peace officer, who receives compensation for private employment
on an individual or an independent contractor basis as a private security
consultant, among the enumerated persons to whom this Act does not apply. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.