Amend HB 3189 by amending SECTION 2, Section 7, Article
5.43-2, Insurance Code, by striking subsection (b) (Committee
printing, page 2 at line 61 through page 3 at line 1) and replacing
it with a new subsections (b), (c), (d) and (e) to read as follows:
      (b)  Except as provided by subsection (c), a political
subdivision may not offer residential alarm system sales, service,
installation, or monitoring unless it has been providing monitoring
services to residences within the boundaries of the political
subdivision as of September 1, 1999. Any fee charged by the
political subdivision may not exceed the cost of the monitoring.
      (c)  A political subdivision may:
            (1)  offer service, installing, or monitoring for
property owned by the political subdivision or another political
subdivision;
            (2)  allow for the response of an alarm or detection
device by a law enforcement agency or fire department or by a law
enforcement officer or firefighter acting in an official capacity;
or
            (3)  offer monitoring to a financial institution, as
defined by Section 59.301, Finance Code, that requests, in writing,
that the political subdivision provide monitoring service to the
financial institution.
      (d)  The limitations in subsection (b) do not apply to a
political subdivision in a county with a population of less than
80,000 or in a political subdivision where monitoring is not
otherwise provided or available.
      (e)  For purposes of Subsection (b), (c) and (d), the
definition of "monitoring" means the receipt of fire alarm or
supervisory signals or retransmission or communication of those
signals to a fire service communications center that is located in
this state or serves property in this state.  This is not intended
to require a political subdivision to be licensed under Art.
5.43-2, Texas Insurance Code.
      Amend HB 3189 by striking SECTION 17 as amended by CSHB 2617
and HCR 295, Acts of the 76th Legislature and replacing it, where
appropriate, to read SECTION ____, Section 13, Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act (Article
4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) by adding subsections
(d), (e) and (f) to read as follows:
      (d)  Except as provided by subsection (e), a political
subdivision may not offer residential alarm system sales, service,
installation, or monitoring unless it has been providing monitoring
services to residences within the boundaries of the political
subdivision as of September 1, 1999.  Any fee charged by the
political subdivision may not exceed the cost of the monitoring.
      (e)  A political subdivision may offer:
            (1)  service, installation, or monitoring for property
owned by the political subdivision or another political
subdivision;
            (2)  allow for the response of an alarm or detection
device by a law enforcement agency or by a law enforcement officer
acting in an official capacity; or
            (3)  monitoring in connection with a criminal
investigation; or
            (4)  monitoring to a financial institution, as defined
by Section 59.301, Finance Code, that requests, in writing, that
the political subdivision provide monitoring service to the
financial institution.
      (f)  The limitations of subsection (d) do not apply to a
political subdivision in a county with a population of less than
80,000 or in a political subdivision where monitoring is not
otherwise provided or available.