By Garcia H.B. No. 2399
75R7773 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to municipal regulation of burglar alarm systems.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 218.007(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A municipality may not impose a penalty or fee for the
1-7 signaling of a false alarm by a burglar alarm system unless at
1-8 least two [five] other false alarms have occurred during the
1-9 preceding 12-month period.
1-10 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-11 to a false alarm that occurs on or after the effective date of this
1-12 Act. A false alarm that occurred before the effective date of this
1-13 Act is governed by the law in effect when the false alarm occurred,
1-14 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.