Bill Text: TX SB220 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 220 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a feasibility study and report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management regarding the use of United States Postal Service employees, resources, and assets during a declared disaster.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-01 - Referred to State Affairs [SB220 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB220-Introduced.html

	86R3293 JCG-D

	By: Menéndez	S.B. No. 220



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a feasibility study and report by the Texas Division of
	Emergency Management regarding the use of United States Postal
	Service employees, resources, and assets during a declared
	disaster.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 418.054 to read as follows:
	Sec. 418.054. STUDY REGARDING AGREEMENT WITH UNITED STATES
	POSTAL SERVICE DURING STATE OF DISASTER. (a) The division shall
	conduct a study to examine the feasibility of establishing an
	agreement with the United States Postal Service regarding the use
	of employees, resources, and assets within the postal service
	during a state of disaster to:
	(1) identify residential or commercial structures
	that have been damaged;
	(2) identify persons who reside in a damaged area and
	the medical or physical needs of those persons;
	(3) help assess the damage to neighborhoods or
	communities; and
	(4) assist in any other activity that the division
	determines to be necessary in responding to the disaster.
	(b) Not later than November 1, 2021, the division shall:
	(1) complete the study;
	(2) report the results of the study to the lieutenant
	governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the
	standing committees of the house and the senate with jurisdiction
	over public safety matters; and
	(3) post the results of the study on the division's
	Internet website.
	(c) This section expires December 31, 2023.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.