HB 4023

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
Sec 1702.322.  LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.  This chapter does
(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
(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, 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
(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.