Amend CSHB 2617 by adding a new SECTION 17, Section 13,
Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act (Article
4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) (Committee printing at
page 12, line 60), is amended by adding subsection (d) and (e) to
read as follows:
      (d)  A political subdivision may not offer alarm system
sales, service, installation, or monitoring except as follows:
            (1)  service, installation, or monitoring is provided
for property owned by the political subdivision or another
political subdivision;
            (2)  monitoring is conducted for an ongoing criminal
investigation;
            (3)  a financial institution, as defined by Section
59.301, Finance Code, that is a member of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation requests, in writing, that the political
subdivision provide monitoring service to the financial
institution; or
            (4)  the political subdivision has, since September 1,
1999, monitored residential alarm sites and any fee charged by the
political subdivision does not exceed the cost of the monitoring.
      (e)  A political subdivision may not advertise or solicit
monitoring services.
and renumber the subsequent sections accordingly.