Bill Text: TX SB1287 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the Homeland Security Council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [SB1287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1287-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the Homeland Security Council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [SB1287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1287-Comm_Sub.html
By: Campbell | S.B. No. 1287 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2019; March 7, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs & | ||
Border Security; March 18, 2019, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 18, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the composition of the Homeland Security Council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 421.021(a), Government Code, as amended | ||
by Chapters 93 (S.B. 686), 616 (S.B. 1393), and 1217 (S.B. 1536), | ||
Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted | ||
and amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Homeland Security Council is composed of the | ||
governor or the governor's designee, the speaker of the house of | ||
representatives or the speaker's designee, the lieutenant governor | ||
or the lieutenant governor's designee, and one representative of | ||
each of the following entities, appointed by the single statewide | ||
elected or appointed governing officer, administrative head, or | ||
chair, as appropriate, of the entity: | ||
(1) Department of Agriculture; | ||
(2) office of the attorney general; | ||
(3) General Land Office; | ||
(4) Public Utility Commission of Texas; | ||
(5) Department of State Health Services; | ||
(6) Department of Information Resources; | ||
(7) Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas; | ||
(8) Texas Division of Emergency Management; | ||
(9) Texas Military Department; | ||
(10) Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; | ||
(11) Railroad Commission of Texas; | ||
(12) Texas Military Preparedness Commission; | ||
(13) Texas Department of Transportation; | ||
(14) Commission on State Emergency Communications; | ||
(15) Office of State-Federal Relations; | ||
(16) secretary of state; | ||
(17) Senate Committee on Veteran [ |
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jurisdiction over homeland security [ |
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(19) House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs; | ||
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(21) Texas Animal Health Commission; | ||
(22) Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer | ||
Standards and Education; | ||
(23) state fire marshal's office; | ||
(24) Texas Education Agency; | ||
(25) Texas Commission on Fire Protection; | ||
(26) Parks and Wildlife Department; | ||
(27) Texas A&M Forest Service; [ |
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(28) Texas Water Development Board; | ||
(29) Health and Human Services Commission; | ||
(30) State Office of Risk Management; | ||
(31) Texas School Safety Center; and | ||
(32) Texas Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than the 90th day after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the governing officer, administrative head, or | ||
chair, as appropriate, of the Health and Human Services Commission, | ||
State Office of Risk Management, Texas School Safety Center, and | ||
Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall appoint a representative | ||
to the Homeland Security Council, as required by Section | ||
421.021(a), Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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