By: Bohac (Senate Sponsor - Estes)	H.B. No. 458
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2013;
	April 24, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Business and Commerce; May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the
	following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to eligibility requirements for a residential fire alarm
	training school instructor.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 6002.158(c), Insurance Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c)  Training school instructors must be approved by the
	state fire marshal.  To be eligible for approval, an instructor
	must:
	(1)  hold a fire alarm planning superintendent license,
	a residential fire alarm superintendent license, or a fire alarm
	technician license; and
	(2)  have at least three years of experience in fire
	alarm installation, service, or monitoring.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application for approval or renewal of approval of a training
	school instructor 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.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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