Bill Text: TX HB1873 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management regarding building trade services following disasters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB1873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1873-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management regarding building trade services following disasters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB1873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1873-Introduced.html
86R6871 SRA-D | ||
By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 1873 |
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relating to a report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management | ||
regarding building trade services following disasters. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 418.054 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.054. REPORT ON BUILDING TRADE SERVICES FOLLOWING | ||
DISASTERS. (a) Not later than November 1, 2020, the division shall | ||
submit a report to members of the legislature on improving the | ||
oversight, accountability, and availability of building trade | ||
services following disasters. The report must include: | ||
(1) strategies to increase the availability of | ||
tradespeople, including plumbers and electricians, following a | ||
disaster; | ||
(2) approaches to increase prosecutions of alleged | ||
fraud related to building trade services offered following a | ||
disaster; and | ||
(3) methods to encourage performance bond | ||
requirements in contracts for building trade services to be | ||
performed following a disaster. | ||
(b) The division shall consult with appropriate state | ||
entities, including the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and | ||
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, local governments, | ||
trade associations, and law enforcement groups in preparing the | ||
report described by Subsection (a). | ||
(c) This section expires January 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |