BILL NUMBER: AB 2128	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend  Section   Sections 7583.39
and  7583.40 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to
private security services.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2128, as amended, Gaines. Private security services: insurance
policies.
   The Private Security Services Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of private patrol operators by the Bureau of Security and
Investigative Services in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Existing law requires a private patrol operator employing a security
guard who carries a firearm to maintain an insurance policy that
provides minimum limits of insurance of $500,000 for any one loss due
to bodily injury or death and $500,000 for any one loss due to
injury or destruction of property.
   This bill would  instead  require  a  
private patrol operator employing any security guard to maintain an
insurance policy and would require  that insurance policy to
provide minimum limits of insurance  for an unspecified
amount   of $1,000,000  for any one loss due to
bodily injury or death and  for an unspecified amount
  $1,000,000  for any one loss due to injury or
destruction of property.
   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 7583.39 of the  
Business and Professions Code   is amended to read: 
   7583.39.  No private patrol operator who employs  a
  any  security guard  who carries a
firearm as part of his or her duties  shall engage in any of
the practices for which he or she is required to be licensed by this
chapter, unless he or she maintains an insurance policy as defined
in Section 7583.40.
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 7583.40
of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
   7583.40.  "Insurance policy," as used in this article, means a
contract of liability insurance issued by an insurance company
authorized to transact business in this state that provides minimum
limits of insurance of  ____ ($____)   one
million dollars ($1,000,000)  for any one loss due to bodily
injury or death and)  ____($____)   one million
dollars ($1,000,000)  for any one loss due to injury or
destruction of property.