Bill Text: TX HB3096 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program for carrying automated external defibrillators in certain Department of Public Safety vehicles.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB3096 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3096-Introduced.html
| By: Price | H.B. No. 3096 | |
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| relating to a pilot program for carrying automated external | ||
| defibrillators in certain Department of Public Safety vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.0094 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.0094. PILOT PROGRAM FOR CARRYING AUTOMATED | ||
| EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS IN CERTAIN DEPARTMENT VEHICLES. (a) The | ||
| department shall develop and implement a pilot program in the | ||
| department's West Texas Region and Northwest Texas Region that | ||
| requires each department vehicle used for highway patrol in those | ||
| regions to carry an automated external defibrillator. | ||
| (b) The department shall document each use of an automated | ||
| external defibrillator included in the pilot program under | ||
| Subsection (a) and the location of use, including the county in | ||
| which the defibrillator was used and the approximate address of | ||
| use. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1, 2028, the department shall | ||
| submit a written report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
| the speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing | ||
| committees of the house of | ||
| representatives and the senate with | ||
| primary jurisdiction over the department on the results of the | ||
| pilot program, including the information documented under | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
