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.