Bill Text: TX HB201 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 201 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a biennial report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management regarding building trade services following disasters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-20 - Filed [HB201 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB201-Introduced.html

	87S20473 RDS-D

	By: Dominguez	H.B. No. 201



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a biennial 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 418.059 to read as follows:
	Sec. 418.059. REPORT ON BUILDING TRADE SERVICES FOLLOWING
	DISASTERS. (a) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered
	year, 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).
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.