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Providing for specified limitations regarding fees and fines applicable to alarm system contractors, and providing an effective date
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2020
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Local governments cannot charge alarm system companies fees or fines for false alarms or for keeping an alarm system running. While cities can still require permits for installing new systems, they are not allowed to audit how companies collect those permit costs from customers. This change affects both local governments and the businesses that install security alarms.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits political subdivisions from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule, or other measure requiring an alarm system contractor to pay a fee or fine associated with false alarms, emergency response to false alarms, or permits associated with placing or keeping an alarm system in service. This prohibition does not apply to installation permits required by a political subdivision’s building code. The bill also provides that if prior to the effective date of the bill an alarm system contractor passed the costs of installation permits to a customer as shown on a separate line item on the customer’s invoice, the alarm system contractor may continue to collect the fees from the customer until December 31, 2020. The bill provides that the alarm system contractor is required to pay the fees to the political subdivision or its designee. The bill prohibits a political subdivision from auditing the alarm system contractor’s collection of the fees. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
House subcommittee
Named January 29, 2020. Meeting: Wednesday, February 12 · 12:00 PM · House Lounge.
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