Bill Text: NJ S3186 | 2026-2027 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public safety answering points to establish process to accept alarm scores reported by alarm monitoring centers and provide scores to law enforcement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-01-13 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S3186 Detail]
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI
District 22 (Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires public safety answering points to establish process to accept alarm scores reported by alarm monitoring centers and provide scores to law enforcement.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning public safety answering points and amending P.L.1989, c.3.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-8) is amended to read as follows:
a. Each public safety answering point shall be capable of dispatching or forwarding requests for law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency medical services, or other emergency services to a public or private safety agency that provides the requested services.
b. Each public safety answering point shall be equipped with a system approved by the office for the processing of requests for emergency services for the physically disabled. No person shall connect to a telephone company's network any automatic alarm or other automatic alerting device which causes the number "9-1-1" to be automatically dialed and which provides a prerecorded message in order to directly access emergency services, except for devices which may be approved by the office. Devices approved by the office shall be registered with the office on forms provided by the office.
c. Each entity operating a public safety answering point shall be responsible for obtaining, operating, and maintaining enhanced 9-1-1 termination equipment. The operations and maintenance of this equipment shall be in accordance with standards set forth by the office pursuant to section 3 of this act.
d. Each public safety answering point shall establish a process to accept alarm scores reported by alarm monitoring centers utilizing the standards set forth in ANSI/TMA-AVS-01 2023 Alarm Validation Scoring Standard or any subsequent superseding standards which grades the probability of unauthorized activity detected by the alarm system for every activation of an intrusion alarm. The public safety answering point shall provide the alarm score to law enforcement for incident prioritization and response.
As used in this subsection:
"Alarm monitoring center" means a facility that receives signals from protected premises alarm systems and at which personnel are in attendance at all times to act upon these signals.
"Intrusion alarm" means an event received by an alarm monitoring center indicating a sensor has detected an entry into a protected premises, that occurs when the alarm system is armed.
(cf: P.L.1989, c.3, s.8)
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month next following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires public safety answering points to establish a process to accept alarm scores reported by alarm monitoring centers and provide these scores to law enforcement.
Under the provisions of this bill, every public safety answering point is required to establish a process to accept alarm scores reported by alarm monitoring centers utilizing the standards set forth in ANSI/TMA-AVS-01 2023 Alarm Validation Scoring Standard or any subsequent superseding standards which grades the probability of unauthorized activity detected by the alarm system for every activation of an intrusion alarm. The public safety answering point, a facility that receives and processes 9-1-1 calls, is required to provide the alarm score to law enforcement for incident prioritization and response when creating a dispatch request.
The bill defines an "alarm monitoring center" as a facility that receives signals from protected premises alarm systems and at which personnel are in attendance at all times to act upon these signals.
