Bill Text: TX HB202 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency management for cybersecurity events threatening this state.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-20 - Filed [HB202 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB202-Introduced.html
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| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 202 | |
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| relating to emergency management for cybersecurity events | ||
| threatening this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 418.002, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 418.002. PURPOSES. The purposes of this chapter are | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) reduce vulnerability of people and communities of | ||
| this state to damage, injury, and loss of life and property | ||
| resulting from natural or man-made catastrophes, riots, [ |
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| hostile military or paramilitary action, or cybersecurity events; | ||
| (2) prepare for prompt and efficient rescue, care, and | ||
| treatment of persons victimized or threatened by disaster; | ||
| (3) provide a setting conducive to the rapid and | ||
| orderly restoration and rehabilitation of persons and property | ||
| affected by disasters; | ||
| (4) clarify and strengthen the roles of the governor, | ||
| state agencies, the judicial branch of state government, and local | ||
| governments in prevention of, preparation for, response to, and | ||
| recovery from disasters; | ||
| (5) authorize and provide for cooperation in disaster | ||
| mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; | ||
| (6) authorize and provide for coordination of | ||
| activities relating to disaster mitigation, preparedness, | ||
| response, and recovery by agencies and officers of this state, and | ||
| similar state-local, interstate, federal-state, and foreign | ||
| activities in which the state and its political subdivisions may | ||
| participate; | ||
| (7) provide an emergency management system embodying | ||
| all aspects of predisaster preparedness and postdisaster response; | ||
| (8) assist in mitigation of disasters caused or | ||
| aggravated by inadequate planning for and regulation of public and | ||
| private facilities and land use; | ||
| (9) encourage state agencies, local governments, | ||
| nongovernmental organizations, private entities, and individuals | ||
| to adopt the goals of the strategic plan of the Federal Emergency | ||
| Management Agency for preparing for, responding to, and recovering | ||
| from a disaster that emphasize cooperation among federal agencies, | ||
| state agencies, local governments, nongovernmental organizations, | ||
| private entities, and individuals in each activity or project | ||
| undertaken to ensure that this state is prepared to effectively | ||
| respond to and recover from a disaster; and | ||
| (10) provide the authority and mechanism to respond to | ||
| an energy emergency. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 418.0195(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The governor may order the Department of Information | ||
| Resources to disconnect a computer network from the Internet in the | ||
| event of a cybersecurity event or other substantial external threat | ||
| to the computer network. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
