Bill Text: TX HB3070 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to grants for emergency assistance under the rural volunteer fire department assistance program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3070 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3070-Comm_Sub.html

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86R17325 JCG-D
By: King of Hemphill, Springer, Cyrier, Murr, H.B. No. 3070
Kacal
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3070:
By: Beckley C.S.H.B. No. 3070

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to grants for emergency assistance under the rural
volunteer fire department assistance program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 614.102, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
follows:
(c) The director shall:
(1) determine reasonable criteria and qualifications
for the distribution of money from the volunteer fire department
assistance fund, including:
(A) the frequency, size, and severity of past
wildfires in a volunteer fire department's jurisdiction; [and]
(B) the potential for loss or damage to property
resulting from future wildfires in the department's jurisdiction;
and
(C) the department's need for emergency
assistance under Section 614.103(a-1); and
(2) establish a procedure for reporting and processing
requests for money from the fund.
(h) The procedure for processing requests established under
Subsection (c) must require the director to process a request for
emergency assistance under Section 614.103(a-1) before any other
type of request for assistance.
SECTION 2. Section 614.103, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A volunteer fire department whose equipment is
damaged or lost in responding to a declared state of disaster under
Chapter 418 in an area subject to the declaration may submit a
request for emergency assistance from the fund for:
(1) the replacement or repair of damaged or lost
personal protective equipment or other firefighting equipment; and
(2) the purchase of a machine to clean personal
protective equipment.
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the director of the Texas A&M Forest Service shall
adopt rules as necessary to implement Subchapter G, Chapter 614,
Government Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.