Bill Text: TX HB1510 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain functions related to emergency services districts from the Department of Agriculture to the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1510 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1510-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1510 |
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relating to the transfer of certain functions related to emergency | ||
services districts from the Department of Agriculture to the Texas | ||
Division of Emergency Management. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 487.061, Government Code, is transferred | ||
to Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, redesignated as | ||
Section 418.053, Government Code, and amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.053 [ |
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PROGRAM. (a) The division [ |
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to provide interested rural communities with: | ||
(1) general information about emergency services | ||
districts; and | ||
(2) information and training related to the | ||
establishment of an emergency services district. | ||
(b) The division [ |
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(1) provide to fire departments in rural areas | ||
information relating to assistance programs offered to rural | ||
volunteer firefighters, including the federal Staffing for | ||
Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant program to help fire | ||
departments increase staffing and deployment capabilities; and | ||
(2) provide to rural homeowners information relating | ||
to the benefits of volunteer fire departments, including a | ||
reduction in homeowners insurance risk ratings, lower homeowners | ||
insurance rates, and better fire protection. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 775.083(a), (b), and (c), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) On or before January 1 of each year, a district shall | ||
file with the Texas Division of Emergency Management [ |
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(1) the district's name; | ||
(2) the name of each county in which the district is | ||
located; | ||
(3) the district's business address; | ||
(4) the name, mailing address, and term of office of | ||
each commissioner; | ||
(5) the name, mailing address, and term of office of | ||
the district's general manager, executive director, and fire chief; | ||
(6) the name of each legal counsel or other consultant | ||
for the district; and | ||
(7) the district's annual budget and tax rate for the | ||
preceding fiscal year. | ||
(b) The Texas Division of Emergency Management [ |
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(c) The Texas Division of Emergency Management [ |
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system that enables: | ||
(1) a district to securely file the report and update | ||
the district's information; and | ||
(2) the public to view, in a searchable format, the | ||
reports filed by districts under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2018, the following are | ||
transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Texas | ||
Division of Emergency Management: | ||
(1) the powers, duties, functions, programs, and | ||
activities of the Department of Agriculture relating to the duties | ||
described by Section 418.053, Government Code, as transferred, | ||
redesignated, and amended by this Act; | ||
(2) any obligations and contracts of the Department of | ||
Agriculture that are directly related to implementing a power, | ||
duty, function, program, or activity described by Subdivision (1) | ||
of this section; and | ||
(3) all property and records in the custody of the | ||
Department of Agriculture that are related to a power, duty, | ||
function, program, or activity described by Subdivision (1) of this | ||
section and all funds appropriated by the legislature for that | ||
power, duty, function, program, or activity. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
775.083, Health and Safety Code, applies only to an annual report | ||
due on or after January 1, 2019. An annual report due before | ||
January 1, 2019, is governed by the law as it existed immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1510 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1510 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |