Bill Text: TX HB802 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate door-to-door solicitation and sales by an alarm systems company.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-18 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB802 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB802-Introduced.html
| 82R414 TJB-D | ||
| By: Bonnen | H.B. No. 802 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate | ||
| door-to-door solicitation and sales by an alarm systems company. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1702.134, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a [ |
||
| holder or an employee of a license holder is not required to obtain | ||
| an authorization, permit, franchise, or license from, pay another | ||
| fee or franchise tax to, or post a bond in a municipality, county, | ||
| or other political subdivision of this state to engage in business | ||
| or perform a service authorized under this chapter. | ||
| (a-1) An alarm systems company, including any employee or | ||
| contractor of an alarm systems company, engaged in business or | ||
| performing a service in a municipality must comply with any | ||
| ordinance regulating the unsolicited promotion, sale, or offer for | ||
| sale of goods or services in the municipality. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
