HB 1115

relating to the employment of honorably retired peace officers as
school district security personnel and the applicability to those
officers of certain law governing private security.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Section 37.081, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-5) to read as follows:
(a-5)  An honorably retired peace officer, as defined by
Section 614.121, Government Code, employed as security personnel
(1)  keep the peace officer's license in active status;
(2)  fulfill all applicable requirements under
Sections 1701.351 and 1701.352, Occupations Code.
SECTION 2.  Section 1702.002, Occupations Code, is amended
by adding Subdivision (19) to read as follows:
(19)  "School district honorably retired peace
officer" means an honorably retired peace officer, as defined by
Section 614.121, Government Code, who is employed by a school
SECTION 3.  Section 1702.322, Occupations Code, is amended
Sec. 1702.322.  LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.  This chapter
(1)  a person who is a peace officer or a school
district honorably retired peace officer [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
(A)  is employed in an employee-employer
relationship or employed on an individual contractual basis:
(i)  directly by the recipient of the
(ii)  by a company licensed under this
(B)  is not in the employ of another peace
(C)  [is not a reserve peace officer; and
[(D)]  works [as a peace officer] on the average
of at least 32 hours a week for and[,] is compensated [by the state
or a political subdivision of the state] at least at the minimum
(i)  for a peace officer, the state or a
political subdivision of the state; or
(ii)  for a school district honorably
retired peace officer, a school district; and
(D)  is entitled to all employee benefits offered
to a peace officer by the state or political subdivision described
(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 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.