Bill Text: TX HB1873 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.html
| 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) the number and economic impact of tradespeople in | ||
| communities affected by a disaster; | ||
| (2) strategies for using a workforce that has been | ||
| trained in a United States Department of Labor Industry-Recognized | ||
| Apprenticeship Program or Registered Apprenticeship Program to | ||
| increase the availability of tradespeople, including plumbers and | ||
| electricians, following a disaster; | ||
| (3) approaches to increase prosecutions of alleged | ||
| fraud relating to building trade services offered following a | ||
| disaster, including wage theft and worker misclassification; and | ||
| (4) 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, United States Department of Labor Registered | ||
| Apprenticeship Programs, and law enforcement groups in preparing | ||
| the report described by Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) The report described by Subsection (a) must include the | ||
| methodology of the contents of the report, including the type and | ||
| nature of information provided by the entities described by | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) This section expires January 1, 2021. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
