Re: Installers in Kentucky beware of HB-41

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 19, 10:00 am, Frank Olson
<use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RockyTSquirrel wrote:
> > Kentucky installers  beware of Kentucky house bill  HB-41..
>
> > if passed  prepare to pay out the ass for licenses..
> > yearly schooling (big expenses)
> > yearly renewals (bigger expenses)
> > insurance upgrades (biggest expenses)
>
> > a new government agency to regulate your ever move..
>
> If it's set up correctly I can big benefits for installers and
> technicians as well.  Many states regulate the alarm industry.  Do you
> know what state Kentucky is going to model their alarm bill on??

RHC: Regulation, intelligently done (rare), and controlled in some
fashion so it doesnt't morph into another revenue generating,self
serving government regulatory agency, can benefit our industry by
ensuring standards are met for those who serve the security buying
public. But in spite of those benefits, what it can also do is drive
those "little alarm dealers" out of the industry who for one reason or
another just don't want to be bothered with this, or who refuse rto
obey on principle. This leaves more potential victims exposed for the
ADT's and other Borg companies to gouge even more of buying public,
since they WILL take the time and put up with the extra expense to
follow any level of regulation. They must be smiling all the way to
the bank...

I don't know the nature of these new regulatory restrictions, so I
can't say this will happen for sure, but is just seems like another in
a long list of actions taken by governments to improve things, but
which more often than not, turn out to have just the opposite effect.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see......