I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1441 
To provide for background checks of persons working in the electronic life 
safety and security systems industry, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 9, 2013 
Mr. LUETKEMEYER (for himself and Mr. MICHAUD) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide for background checks of persons working in 
the electronic life safety and security systems industry, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Electronic Life Safety 
and Security Systems Federal Background Check Act of 
2013’’. 
SEC. 2. ELECTRONIC LIFE SAFETY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS 
FEDERAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The electronic life safety and security sys-
tems industry performs critical security installation 
and protection for much of the infrastructure in the 
United States and provides commercial buildings, 
public agencies and residences with alarm and secu-
rity systems that are an important part of homeland 
security and anti-crime and terrorist prevention. 
(2) The electronic life safety and security sys-
tems industry includes central monitoring stations 
and individual employer-owned companies and other 
private sector businesses that install alarm and secu-
rity systems in infrastructure of the United States. 
(3) Some States do not provide for any licens-
ing or regulation requirement that includes a State 
or Federal background check on employees of the 
companies involved in the electronic life safety and 
security systems industry. 
(4) Many employees in the electronic life safety 
and security systems industry travel across State 
lines to install systems and may or may not be re-
quired to undergo Federal background checks as a 
condition of employment and in some cases there 
may be background check requirements at the State 
level or duplicated background checks at the county 
or city levels. 
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(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ELECTRONIC LIFE SAFETY AND SECURITY 
SYSTEMS INDUSTRY.—The term ‘‘electronic life safe-
ty and security systems industry’’ means businesses 
that provide electronic life safety and security sys-
tems installation and central monitoring of fire and 
burglar alarm systems to public or private entities, 
including fire alarms, burglar alarms, smoke detec-
tion, closed-circuit TV, biometric systems, access 
control systems, personal emergency response sys-
tems, and other crime prevention systems. 
(2) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’ means 
an individual employed in the electronic life safety 
and security systems industry. 
(3) PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘pro-
spective employee’’ means an individual seeking em-
ployment in the electronic life safety and security 
systems industry. 
(4) COVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-
tity’’ means any employer in the electronic life safety 
and security systems industry. 
(c) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to fa-
cilitate widespread access to State and national criminal 
history background checks, not otherwise authorized by 
Federal or State law, on employees and prospective em-
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ployees in the electronic life safety and security systems 
industry. 
(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF BACKGROUND CHECK.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the At-
torney General shall establish a method to permit 
covered entities to request a fitness determination by 
a governmental entity based on State and Federal 
fingerprint-based 
criminal 
history 
background 
checks, in accordance with the information contained 
in records acquired under section 534 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
(2) DUTIES.—The Attorney General shall— 
(A) inform covered entities about how to 
request background checks— 
(i) for covered entities located in a 
State with a qualified State program, as 
determined by the Attorney General, by re-
ferring the covered entities to the State au-
thorized agency; and 
(ii) for covered entities located in a 
State without a qualified State program, 
as determined by the Attorney General, by 
providing information on alternative meth-
ods of obtaining a background check; 
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