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House Bill 2340 |
House Author: Dominguez et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-19 |
Senate Sponsor: Johnson |
House Bill 2340 amends the Texas Disaster Act of 1975, Government Code, to do the following:
· establish the unmanned aircraft study group to study and report on issues related to the appropriate use of unmanned aircraft in responding to and recovering from a disaster;
· require the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to establish a work group of state agencies involved in disaster management to develop and report recommendations for improving the manner in which electronic information is stored by and shared among state agencies to improve the capacity of the agencies to respond to a disaster;
· require TDEM to form a task force to be activated when a state of disaster is declared because of weather conditions to expedite environmental permitting and access to funds from federal disaster relief programs and to develop recommendations for performing that action; and
· require the Office of State‑Federal Relations to study and report on federal laws and policies related to issues affecting the ability of federal and state agencies and local governments to cooperate in responding to a disaster.