TITLE: Relating to licensing requirements for a residential fire alarm technician.

SUMMARY: Relating to licensing requirements for a residential fire alarm technician.

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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.