SB 2502

By: Zaffirini
  S.B. No. 2502
  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 while the reserve officer
  is performing guard, patrolman, extra job coordinator, or watchman
  duties for any person or a state agency or political subdivision [a
  county] and is being compensated [solely] by that person or agency
  or subdivision [county]; and
                     (A)  the chief administrator of the agency
  granting  the reserve status approves; and 
                     (B)  the duties are performed in a county with a
  population of at least 250,000 and no greater than 650,000 and
  located on 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.