Bill Text: TX HB173 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to civil liability for discriminatory false reports to law enforcement agencies or emergency service providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB173 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB173-Introduced.html
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| By: Springer | H.B. No. 173 | |
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| relating to the establishment of the Emergency Powers Board and its | ||
| powers during a declared state of disaster or public health | ||
| disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 418.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 418.007. EMERGENCY POWERS BOARD. (a) The Emergency | ||
| Powers Board is established to provide oversight during a declared | ||
| state of disaster, including a public health disaster declared as | ||
| provided by Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The board is composed of: | ||
| (1) the governor; | ||
| (2) the lieutenant governor; | ||
| (3) the speaker of the house of representatives; | ||
| (4) the chair of the committee of the senate with | ||
| primary jurisdiction over state affairs; and | ||
| (5) the chair of the committee of the house of | ||
| representatives with primary jurisdiction over state affairs. | ||
| (c) On or after the eighth day after the date the governor | ||
| issues an executive order, proclamation, or regulation under this | ||
| chapter, including an order, proclamation, or regulation related to | ||
| a public health disaster declared as provided by Chapter 81, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, the board by majority vote may set an expiration | ||
| date for the order, proclamation, or regulation. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Chapter 551 or any other law, the board | ||
| may meet by telephone conference call, videoconference, or other | ||
| similar telecommunication method. A meeting held by telephone | ||
| conference call, videoconference, or other similar | ||
| telecommunication method is subject to the requirements of Sections | ||
| 551.125(c), (d), (e), and (f). | ||
| (e) If an executive order, proclamation, or regulation | ||
| issued by the governor has as an expiration date set by the governor | ||
| and not modified by the board a date that is on or after the 22nd day | ||
| after the date the order, proclamation, or regulation is issued, | ||
| the governor shall convene the legislature in special session to | ||
| determine whether any legislation is necessary to implement, | ||
| modify, or repeal the order, proclamation, or regulation. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022, but only | ||
| if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 87th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2021, requiring the governor to call the | ||
| legislature into special session following certain disaster or | ||
| emergency declarations and specifying the powers of the legislature | ||
| in those special sessions is approved by the voters. If that | ||
| amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. | ||
