78R6293 JRD-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 3497
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding and extending the expiration date of the
regional emergency medical dispatch resource center pilot program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 771.105, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 771.105. FUNDING OF PILOT PROGRAM. (a) Money in the
9-1-1 services fee fund may be appropriated to the Texas Department
of Health to fund the pilot program.
(b) The department is also authorized to seek grant funding
for the pilot program.
(c) A political subdivision that participates in the pilot
program may pay an appropriate share of the cost of the pilot
program.
(d) The provisions in this subchapter that require the
department to establish, conduct, and evaluate the pilot program
are contingent on the department receiving funding in accordance
with this section. If a sufficient number of political
subdivisions in a region that could be served by a pilot program
offer to pay the Texas Department of Health an amount that in the
aggregate, together with any other funding received under this
section, is sufficient to fund the pilot program for the region, the
department:
(1) shall enter into contracts with the offering
political subdivisions under which each will pay an appropriate
share of the cost; and
(2) when the amount under the signed contracts,
together with any other funding received under this section, is
sufficient to fund the pilot program for the region, shall
implement the pilot program for the region.
SECTION 2. Section 771.108, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 771.108. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires
September 1, 2005 [2003].
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.