By: Ratliff, Shapiro S.B. No. 691
Patterson
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the regulation of detection devices and alarm systems
1-2 companies under the Private Investigators and Private Security
1-3 Agencies Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subdivisions (5) and (33), Section 2, Private
1-6 Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act (Article
1-7 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (5) "Alarm systems company" means a [any] person who
1-10 [that sells,] installs, services, monitors, or responds to alarm
1-11 systems, burglar alarm signal devices, detection devices, burglar
1-12 alarms, robbery alarms, television cameras, or still cameras used
1-13 to signal the presence of an emergency or other hazard requiring
1-14 urgent attention and to which law enforcement or other emergency
1-15 services are expected to respond[, or any other electrical,
1-16 mechanical, or electronic device used:]
1-17 [(A) to prevent or detect burglary, theft,
1-18 robbery, shoplifting, pilferage, shrinkage, or other losses of that
1-19 type;]
1-20 [(B) to prevent or detect intrusion; or]
1-21 [(C) primarily to detect or summon aid for other
1-22 emergencies].
1-23 (33) "Detection device" means an electronic device
2-1 used as a part of a burglar or hold-up alarm including any control,
2-2 communications, motion detector, door or window switch, sound
2-3 detector, vibration detector, light beam, pressure mat, wiring, or
2-4 similar device[; or any electronic device used to limit access by
2-5 persons into building structures or gate compounds, including any
2-6 control, communications, motion detector, door or window switch,
2-7 card or proximity readers, push-button key pad entry, gate entry
2-8 device, door exit buttons, or similar device].
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-15 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-16 Amend S.B. 691 as follows:
2-17 (1) On page 2, lines 4-8, strike the type-over which strikes
2-18 "; or any electronic device used to limit access by persons into
2-19 building structures or gate compounds, including any control,
2-20 communications, motion detector, door or window switch, card or
2-21 proximity readers, push button key pad entry, gate entry device,
2-22 door exit buttons, or similar device".
2-23 (2) At the end of Subdivision (33), add "with the exception
2-24 of an electronic device used solely to limit entry into a building
2-25 or gate compound which device does not store ot transmit
3-1 information about the entry or the person entering the building or
3-2 gate compound".
3-3 Madden