TO: | Honorable Steve Ogden, Chair, Senate Committee on Infrastructure Development and Security |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB2116 by Brown, Fred (Relating to the operations of Texas Task Force 1.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The would direct the Governor's Division of Emergency Management to reimburse the State Office of Risk Management for the full costs associated with any medical and indemnity benefits incurred by members of Texas Task Force 1 while under formal deployment of the Governor or under normal training evolutions. The bill would obligate the Governor's Division of Emergency Management to assume the compensatory benefit costs sustained by any employee defined in this legislation. The Texas Engineering Extension Service would be obligated to provide the personnel data required to process any such claims.
Due to the lack of historical experience in worker's compensation related claims during State deployments, it is not possible to quantify specifically the potential costs of this obligation to the Governor's Division of Emergency Management.
Source Agencies: | 301 Office of the Governor
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LBB Staff: | JK, RR, PF, JAW
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