Bill Text: TX HB3340 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the administration and implementation of the Flood Control and Insurance Act; adding provisions subject to a civil or criminal penalty and affecting the prosecution of a criminal offense.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3340 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3340-Comm_Sub.html
| 84R22016 JAM-F | |||
| By: Bohac | H.B. No. 3340 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3340: | |||
| By: Bonnen of Brazoria | C.S.H.B. No. 3340 | ||
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the administration and implementation of the Flood | ||
| Control and Insurance Act; adding provisions subject to a civil or | ||
| criminal penalty and affecting the prosecution of a criminal | ||
| offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 16.3151 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 16.3151. FLOODPLAIN ADMINISTRATORS: DESIGNATION, | ||
| FUNCTIONS, ACCREDITATION, AND CONTINUING EDUCATION. (a) The | ||
| governing body of each city and county shall designate a floodplain | ||
| administrator to administer and implement laws and regulations | ||
| relating to the management of floodplains. | ||
| (b) A floodplain administrator must be accredited by the | ||
| board. | ||
| (c) The board by rule shall establish accreditation | ||
| standards for floodplain administrators. In establishing | ||
| accreditation standards, the board shall consider the knowledge, | ||
| experience, skills, and training necessary to prevent or minimize | ||
| flood hazards and losses. Accreditation standards may require: | ||
| (1) passage of an examination; | ||
| (2) completion of approved training; or | ||
| (3) certification by a nationally recognized | ||
| floodplain management organization. | ||
| (d) The board by rule shall establish requirements for | ||
| mandatory continuing education or training for accredited | ||
| floodplain administrators. Rules adopted under this subsection | ||
| must require a floodplain administrator to complete not less than | ||
| six hours of continuing education or training each year. | ||
| (e) The board may adopt rules necessary to implement and | ||
| enforce this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 16.3161(c), Water Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) The board may use the account to: | ||
| (1) fund the performance of the board's functions | ||
| under Section 16.316; and | ||
| (2) provide initial or continuing education or | ||
| training in order for floodplain administrators to obtain or | ||
| maintain accreditation under Section 16.3151. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 16.3221(a), Water Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person commits an offense if the person violates this | ||
| subchapter or a rule adopted or order issued under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a violation committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| A violation committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the violation was | ||
| committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. For purposes of this section, a violation was committed | ||
| before the effective date of this Act if any element of the | ||
| violation occurred before that date. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
