Bill Text: TX SB2328 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality and disclosure of certain information relating to emergency management and governmental functions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Water & Rural Affairs [SB2328 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2328-Introduced.html
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By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2328 |
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relating to the confidentiality and disclosure of certain | ||
information relating to emergency management and governmental | ||
functions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 418.004, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivision (1-a) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(1) "Critical infrastructure" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 421.001. | ||
(1-a) "Disaster" means the occurrence or imminent | ||
threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or | ||
property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including | ||
fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, wave action, oil spill or | ||
other water contamination, volcanic activity, epidemic, air | ||
contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, riot, | ||
hostile military or paramilitary action, extreme heat, other public | ||
calamity requiring emergency action, or energy emergency. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 418.176, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) In this section and Sections 418.177-418.183, | ||
"governmental entity" includes: | ||
(1) the governing body of a nonprofit corporation | ||
organized under Chapter 67, Water Code, that: | ||
(A) provides a water supply or wastewater | ||
service, or both;[ |
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(B) is exempt from ad valorem taxation under | ||
Section 11.30, Tax Code; and | ||
(2) an emergency service organization as defined by | ||
Section 101.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. | ||
(c) In this section, "staffing requirements" includes | ||
scheduling information for any fire-fighting, emergency medical | ||
services, emergency dispatch, or law enforcement personnel. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 418.181, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.181. CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION | ||
RELATING TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Those documents or portions | ||
of documents in the possession of a governmental entity are | ||
confidential if they identify the technical details of [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 418.182, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) In this section, "security system" includes station | ||
alert systems used as part of a dispatching system for | ||
firefighting, emergency medical services, and law enforcement | ||
personnel. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 552.024, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
(g) For purposes of this section, a volunteer fire fighter, | ||
as defined by Section 78.101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is | ||
considered an employee of a governmental body who begins employment | ||
on the date the volunteer fire fighter commences providing services | ||
to the governmental body. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |