HBA-CMT H.B. 1680 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1680
By: Bosse
Public Safety
3/7/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act
(Private Security Act) enables fulltime active peace officers who are
employed by a municipality or the state to work off-duty employment as well
as supervise and coordinate scheduling as an extra job coordinator for
other municipal or state peace officers to work off-duty as guards,
patrolmen, or watchmen.  House Bill 1680 modifies the definition of "extra
job coordinator" in the Private Security Act to make it applicable to
full-time employees of a political subdivision of the state.  

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. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1680 amends the Occupations Code to remove "municipality" from
the definition of an "extra job coordinator" in reference to peace officers
who work in that position, and adds "political subdivision of the state" to
the definition. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001.