Bill Text: TX HB2345 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-11)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2345 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2345-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-11)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2345 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2345-Comm_Sub.html
By: Walle, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.B. No. 2345 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; | ||
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Water & | ||
Rural Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2345 | By: Rodríguez |
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relating to the creation of the Institute for a Disaster Resilient | ||
Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 86, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 86.82 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 86.82. INSTITUTE FOR A DISASTER RESILIENT TEXAS. (a) | ||
In this section, "institute" means the Institute for a Disaster | ||
Resilient Texas. | ||
(b) The Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas is a | ||
component of Texas A&M University. | ||
(c) The institute is under the management and direction of | ||
the board. | ||
(d) The institute shall: | ||
(1) develop data analytics tools to support disaster | ||
planning, mitigation, response, and recovery by the state, its | ||
political subdivisions, and the public; | ||
(2) create and maintain web-based analytical and | ||
visual tools to communicate disaster risks and ways to reduce those | ||
risks, including tools that work on the level of individual parcels | ||
of land; | ||
(3) provide evidence-based information and solutions | ||
to aid in the formation of state and local partnerships to support | ||
disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery; | ||
(4) collect, display, and communicate comprehensive | ||
flood-related information, including applicable updated inundation | ||
maps, for use by decision-makers and the public; and | ||
(5) collaborate with institutions of higher | ||
education, as that term is defined by Section 61.003, state | ||
agencies, local governments, and other political subdivisions to | ||
accomplish the purposes of this section. | ||
(e) The institute may employ personnel, including experts | ||
in planning, engineering, hydrology, ecology, and economics. | ||
(f) The institute may accept a gift or grant from any public | ||
or private source for the benefit of the institute. | ||
SECTION 2. The Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the institute may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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