1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1203
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2001; March 8, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 17, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 17, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to coastal area hazard reduction and recovery planning and
 1-9     operations.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 418.042, Government Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The division shall prepare and keep current a
1-14     comprehensive state emergency management plan.  The plan must
1-15     include a coastal hazard reduction and recovery annex as described
1-16     by Section 418.0425 and may include:
1-17                 (1)  provisions for prevention and minimization of
1-18     injury and damage caused by disaster;
1-19                 (2)  provisions for prompt and effective response to
1-20     disaster;
1-21                 (3)  provisions for emergency relief;
1-22                 (4)  provisions for energy emergencies;
1-23                 (5)  identification of areas particularly vulnerable to
1-24     disasters;
1-25                 (6)  recommendations for zoning, building restrictions,
1-26     and other land-use controls, safety measures for securing mobile
1-27     homes or other nonpermanent or semipermanent structures, and other
1-28     preventive and preparedness measures designed to eliminate or
1-29     reduce disasters or their impact;
1-30                 (7)  provisions for assistance to local officials in
1-31     designing local emergency management plans;
1-32                 (8)  authorization and procedures for the erection or
1-33     other construction of temporary works designed to protect against
1-34     or mitigate danger, damage, or loss from flood, fire, or other
1-35     disaster;
1-36                 (9)  preparation and distribution to the appropriate
1-37     state and local officials of state catalogs of federal, state, and
1-38     private assistance programs;
1-39                 (10)  organization of manpower and channels of
1-40     assistance;
1-41                 (11)  coordination of federal, state, and local
1-42     emergency management activities;
1-43                 (12)  coordination of the state emergency management
1-44     plan with the emergency management plans of the federal government;
1-45                 (13)  coordination of federal and state energy
1-46     emergency plans; and
1-47                 (14)  other necessary matters relating to disasters.
1-48           SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
1-49     amended by adding Section 418.0425 to read as follows:
1-50           Sec. 418.0425.  COASTAL HAZARD REDUCTION AND RECOVERY ANNEX.
1-51     (a)  The division shall prepare a coastal hazard reduction and
1-52     recovery annex to the state emergency management plan.  The annex
1-53     must include:
1-54                 (1)  provisions for reduction of and recovery from
1-55     coastal hazards;
1-56                 (2)  provisions for providing assistance to local
1-57     coastal jurisdictions in the preparation of coastal hazard
1-58     vulnerability assessments;
1-59                 (3)  a process for the integration of local coastal
1-60     jurisdictions' coastal vulnerability assessments into a coastwide
1-61     vulnerability assessment;
1-62                 (4)  a process to network local coastal emergency
1-63     operations centers into the state operations center and provide
1-64     instant hazard analyses, evacuation route information, and support
 2-1     assets of cities designated as evacuation destinations; and
 2-2                 (5)  a procedure to conduct post-hazard analysis and
 2-3     validation of vulnerability assessments.
 2-4           (b)  The division shall adopt rules to administer this
 2-5     section.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
 2-7           (b)  The division of emergency management in the office of
 2-8     the governor shall implement the coastal hazard reduction and
 2-9     recovery annex as described by Section 418.0425, Government Code,
2-10     as added by this Act, on or before March 1, 2002.
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