Bill Text: TX HB1779 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from private security regulation for social workers engaged in the practice of social work.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1779 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1779-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1779 |
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relating to an exemption from private security regulation for | ||
social workers engaged in the practice of social work. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1702.324(b), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) This chapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) a manufacturer or a manufacturer's authorized | ||
distributor while selling equipment intended for resale; | ||
(2) a person engaged exclusively in the business of | ||
obtaining and providing information to: | ||
(A) determine creditworthiness; | ||
(B) collect debts; or | ||
(C) ascertain the reliability of information | ||
provided by an applicant for property, life, or disability | ||
insurance or an indemnity or surety bond; | ||
(3) a person engaged exclusively in the business of | ||
repossessing property that is secured by a mortgage or other | ||
security interest; | ||
(4) a person who is engaged in the business of | ||
psychological testing or other testing and interviewing services, | ||
including services to determine attitudes, honesty, intelligence, | ||
personality, and skills, for preemployment purposes; | ||
(5) a person who: | ||
(A) is engaged in obtaining information that is a | ||
public record under Chapter 552, Government Code, regardless of | ||
whether the person receives compensation; | ||
(B) is not a full-time employee, as defined by | ||
Section 61.001, Labor Code, of a person licensed under this | ||
chapter; and | ||
(C) does not perform any other act that requires | ||
a license under this chapter; | ||
(6) a licensed engineer practicing engineering or | ||
directly supervising engineering practice under Chapter 1001, | ||
including forensic analysis, burglar alarm system engineering, and | ||
necessary data collection; | ||
(7) an employee of a cattle association who inspects | ||
livestock brands under the authority granted to the cattle | ||
association by the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards | ||
Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture; | ||
(8) a landman performing activities in the course and | ||
scope of the landman's business; | ||
(9) an attorney while engaged in the practice of law; | ||
(10) a person who obtains a document for use in | ||
litigation under an authorization or subpoena issued for a written | ||
or oral deposition; | ||
(11) an admitted insurer, insurance adjuster, agent, | ||
or insurance broker licensed by the state, performing duties in | ||
connection with insurance transacted by that person; | ||
(12) a person who on the person's own property or on | ||
property owned or managed by the person's employer: | ||
(A) installs, changes, or repairs a mechanical | ||
security device; | ||
(B) repairs an electronic security device; or | ||
(C) cuts or makes a key for a security device; | ||
(13) security personnel, including security contract | ||
personnel, working at a commercial nuclear power plant licensed by | ||
the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; | ||
(14) a person or firm licensed as an accountant or | ||
accounting firm under Chapter 901, an owner of an accounting firm, | ||
or an employee of an accountant or accounting firm while performing | ||
services regulated under Chapter 901; | ||
(15) a retailer, wholesaler, or other person who sells | ||
mechanical security devices, including locks and deadbolts, but who | ||
does not: | ||
(A) service mechanical security devices for the | ||
public outside of the person's premises; or | ||
(B) claim to act as a locksmith; [ |
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(16) an employee while performing investigative | ||
services that would otherwise be subject to this chapter for an | ||
entity regulated by the: | ||
(A) Texas Department of Insurance; | ||
(B) Office of Thrift Supervision; | ||
(C) Securities and Exchange Commission; | ||
(D) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; or | ||
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(17) a social worker who holds a license issued under | ||
Chapter 505 who is engaged in the practice of social work. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1779 was passed by the House on April | ||
7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1779 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |