BILL NUMBER: AB 2128	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend  Sections 7583.39 and 7583.40 of 
 Section 7583.40 of, and to repeal and add Section 7583.39 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   all
 private patrol  operator employing any security guard
  operators or applicants for licensure  to
 maintain   file or have on file   with
the bureau  an insurance policy  and would require
 that  insurance policy to provide 
provides  minimum limits of insurance of $1,000,000 for any one
loss due to bodily injury or death and $1,000,000 for any one loss
due to injury or destruction of property.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . 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 any security
guard 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.    Section 7583.39 of the  
Business and Professions Code   is repealed.  
   7583.39.  No private patrol operator who employs a 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. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 7583.39 is added to the  
Business and Professions Code   , to read: 
   7583.39.  The bureau shall require, as a condition precedent to
the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued
maintenance of a license, that the applicant or licensee file or have
on file an insurance policy, as defined in Section 7583.40. 
   SEC. 2.  SEC. 3.   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)   and
 one million dollars ($1,000,000) for any one loss due to injury
or destruction of property.