Amend HB 1951 (house committee report version) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Sections 6002.158(e), Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:

(e)  The curriculum for a residential fire alarm technician course must consist of at least seven [eight] hours of instruction on installing, servicing, and maintaining single-family and two-family residential fire alarm systems as defined by National Fire Protection Standard No. 72 and an examination on National Fire Protection Standard No. 72 for which at least one hour is allocated for completion. The examination must consist of at least 25 questions, and an applicant must accurately answer at least 80 percent of the questions to pass the examination.

SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 6002.158, Insurance Code, apply only to an application for approval or renewal of approval of a training school submitted to the state fire marshal on or after the effective date of this Act. An application submitted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.