BILL NUMBER: AB 2220	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Daly

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend 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 2220, as introduced, Daly. 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 the bureau to require private
patrol operator or applicant for licensure, as a condition precedent
to licensure or continued licensure, to file or have on file with the
bureau an insurance policy that 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: 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
repealed. 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. 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  which
  that  provides minimum limits of insurance of
 five hundred thousand   one million 
dollars  ($500,000)   ($1,000,000)  for any
one loss due to bodily injury or death and  five hundred
thousand   one million  dollars  ($500,000)
  ($1,000,000)  for any one loss due to injury or
destruction of property.