82R9768 RWG-F
By: Bohac H.B. No. 2781
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to licensing requirements for a residential fire alarm
technician.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 6002.154(d-2), Insurance Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d-2) An applicant for a residential fire alarm technician
license must provide with the required license application evidence
of the applicant's successful completion of the required
instruction from a not-for-profit training school approved by the
state fire marshal in accordance with Section 6002.158.
SECTION 2. Sections 6002.158(a) and (e), Insurance Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) An applicant for approval as a training school must
submit an application to the state fire marshal, accompanied by the
applicant's complete course or testing curriculum. The applicant
must be a not-for-profit entity. A registered firm, [or] an
affiliate of a registered firm, or a for-profit business is not
eligible for approval as a training school.
(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 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
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.
(b) The change in law made by this Act applies to an
application for a residential fire alarm technician license
submitted on or after October 1, 2012. An application submitted
before October 1, 2012, 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.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.