BILL NUMBER: AB 1042	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 18, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooper

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 7574.01 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1042, as amended, Cooper. Proprietary security services.
   The Proprietary Security Services Act generally regulates the
proprietary private security vocation, and requires a proprietary
private security officer to, among other things, register with the
Department of Consumer Affairs and complete specified training. The
act defines a proprietary private security officer as an unarmed
individual who, among other qualifications, meets 2 specific criteria
of being required to wear a distinctive uniform clearly identifying
him or her as a security officer and of being likely to interact with
the public while performing his or her duties.
   This bill would expand the definition of a proprietary private
security officer by instead requiring one of the 2 specific criteria
to be met and would include examples of the security officer's duties
that  may   are likely to  involve
interacting with the public.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 7574.01 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7574.01.  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
   (a) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Security and Investigative
Services.
   (b) "Chief" means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and
Investigative Services.
   (c) "Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs, unless the
context indicates otherwise.
   (d) "Person" includes any individual, firm, company, association,
organization, partnership, and corporation.
   (e) "Proprietary private security employer" means a person who has
one or more employees who provide security services for the employer
and only for the employer. A person who employs proprietary private
security officers pursuant to this chapter at more than one location
shall be considered a single employer.
   (f) "Proprietary private security officer" means an unarmed
individual who is employed exclusively by any one employer whose
primary duty is to provide security services for his or her employer,
whose services are not contracted to any other entity or person, and
who is not exempt pursuant to Section 7582.2, and who meets either
of the following criteria:
   (1)  He or she may   Is   required
to  wear a distinctive uniform or marked shirt or jacket clearly
identifying the individual as a security officer.
   (2)  He or she may   Is likely to 
interact with the public while  performing his or her duties,
including controlling access to employer sites or facilities through
the admittance process, assisting visitors with a legitimate need to
enter the facility, screening visitors and employees to expedite
their admittance to the site or facility, escorting visitors in a
facility,   providing security services, which may
include, but not be limited to,  acting to prevent unapproved or
unlawful entry, directing persons causing a disturbance to leave the
facility, ensuring that persons removing property from the facility
are acting within appropriate policy requirements, observing and
reporting incidents or suspicious activity to management and to
public safety authorities as appropriate, and responding to or
reporting incidents of fire, medical emergency, hazardous materials,
and other incidents or conditions following procedures established by
the employer.
   (g) "Registrant" means an individual registered with the bureau
under this chapter.