Bill Text: TX HB1724 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the submission of personal contact information by certain local government officials to the Texas Division of Emergency Management and local health departments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB1724 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1724-Introduced.html
88R2642 LRM-D | ||
By: Raymond | H.B. No. 1724 |
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relating to the submission of personal contact information by | ||
certain local government officials to the Texas Division of | ||
Emergency Management and local health departments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 418.059 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.059. REQUIRED SUBMISSION OF PERSONAL CONTACT | ||
INFORMATION. (a) Each city manager, mayor, county judge, and | ||
director of a municipality's or county's local health department | ||
shall submit to the division the person's personal contact | ||
information to be used during a state of disaster declared under | ||
this chapter or a public health disaster or emergency declared | ||
under Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(b) Information a person submits under this section is | ||
confidential and exempt from disclosure under Chapter 552. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 121, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 121.035 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 121.035. REQUIRED SUBMISSION OF PERSONAL CONTACT | ||
INFORMATION. (a) Each city manager, mayor, and county judge shall | ||
submit to the local health department of the municipality or county | ||
in which the person serves in that office the person's personal | ||
contact information to be used during a state of disaster declared | ||
under Section 418.014, Government Code, or a public health disaster | ||
or emergency declared under Chapter 81. | ||
(b) Information a person submits under this section is | ||
confidential and exempt from disclosure under Chapter 552, | ||
Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2024, a person required | ||
to submit information under Section 418.059, Government Code, as | ||
added by this Act, or Section 121.035, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, shall submit the information required by those | ||
sections. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |