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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 998
HOUSE BILL NO. 1985
By Representatives Grills, Todd, Fritts
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 2291
By Senator Stevens
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 62, Chapter 32, relative to alarm
systems contractors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 62-32-305, is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:
(16)
(A) A managed services provider that:
(i) Provides direct sales, installation, or maintenance service for an
IP camera connected to the managed services provider's network;
(ii) Derives less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the managed
services provider's gross annual revenue from those services; and
(iii) Provides proof of employee vetting satisfactory to the
commissioner;
(B) This subdivision (16) does not apply to a managed services provider
that offers monitoring services; and
(C) As used in this subdivision (16), "managed services provider" means
a business entity that manages and maintains a customer's information
technology systems.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1985
PASSED: April 21, 2026
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CAMERON"'SEXTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RANDY MCNALL
SPEAKER OF THE SENATE
APPROVED this \".)tJ.. day of ('/\:,'-1 2026
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