By:  Deuell, et al.                                               S.B. No. 1409
	(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2003; March 20, 2003, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; 
April 22, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, 
Nays 0; April 22, 2003, sent to printer.)


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.



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