By:  West                                                         H.B. No. 1512



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to meetings to exchange information regarding emergency 
management plans relating to pipeline safety.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 418.106, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
	(d)  Each local or interjurisdictional agency shall conduct 
at least one public meeting each calendar year to exchange 
information about its emergency management plan.  Each agency shall 
provide written notice of the date, time, and location of the 
meeting, not later than the fifth day before the meeting, to the 
pipeline safety section of the gas services division of the 
Railroad Commission of Texas.
	(e)  An emergency management plan of an agency is excepted 
from the requirements of Subsection (d) if:
		(1)  the emergency management plan contains sensitive 
information relating to critical infrastructures or facilities; 
and
		(2)  the safety or security of those infrastructures or 
facilities could be jeopardized by disclosure of the emergency 
management plan.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.