By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 1391
         76R4649 GJH-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the regulation of alarm systems under the Private
 1-3     Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 2(5) and (33), Private Investigators and
 1-6     Private Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas
 1-7     Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
 1-8                 (5)  "Alarm systems company" means any person that
 1-9     sells, installs, services, monitors, or responds to alarm systems,
1-10     burglar  alarm signal devices, detection devices, burglar alarms,
1-11     robbery alarms, television cameras, or still cameras used to signal
1-12     the presence of an emergency or hazard requiring urgent attention
1-13     and to which law enforcement or other emergency services are
1-14     expected to respond [, or any other electrical, mechanical, or
1-15     electronic device used:]
1-16                       [(A)  to prevent or detect burglary, theft,
1-17     robbery, shoplifting, pilferage, shrinkage, or other losses of that
1-18     type;]
1-19                       [(B)  to prevent or detect intrusion; or]
1-20                       [(C)  primarily to detect or summon aid for other
1-21     emergencies].
1-22                 (33)  "Detection device" means an electronic device
1-23     used as a part of a monitored burglar or hold-up alarm including
1-24     any control, communications, motion detector, door or window
 2-1     switch, sound detector, vibration detector, light beam, pressure
 2-2     mat, wiring, or similar device [; or any electronic device used to
 2-3     limit  access by persons into building structures or gate
 2-4     compounds, including any control, communications, motion detector,
 2-5     door or window switch, card or proximity readers, push-button key
 2-6     pad entry, gate entry device, door exit buttons, or similar
 2-7     device].
 2-8           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14     passage, and it is so enacted.