Bill Text: TX SB2037 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a request for 9-1-1 services by text message.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB2037 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2037-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2037 | |
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| relating to a request for 9-1-1 services by text message. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 771A, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 771A.002 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 771A.002. ACCESS TO 9-1-1 SERVICE BY TEXT MESSAGE. (a) | ||
| In this section, "public safety answering point" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 771.001. | ||
| (b) To the extent practicable and within available | ||
| resources, a public safety answering point shall receive emergency | ||
| 9-1-1 communications by calls and text messages. | ||
| (c) In this chapter and Chapters 771 and 772, any reference | ||
| to a call for emergency services received by a public safety | ||
| answering point that has implemented text messaging means a call or | ||
| text message. | ||
| (d) In this chapter and Chapters 771 and 772, a provision | ||
| referring to a telephone number associated with a call or text | ||
| message for emergency services applies only to a call or text | ||
| message that has a telephone number associated with the device from | ||
| which the call or text message originated. Any other relevant and | ||
| available contact information of a person using a device not | ||
| associated with a telephone number to request the emergency | ||
| services must be provided to the public safety answering point. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
