86R12990 JCG-D
 
  By: Lucio S.B. No. 857
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring training for certain emergency management
  coordinators.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 418.005(a), (b), (c), and (e),
  Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to:
               (1)  an elected law enforcement officer or county
  judge, or an appointed public officer of the state or of a political
  subdivision, who has management or supervisory responsibilities
  and:
                     (A) [(1)]  whose position description, job
  duties, or assignment includes emergency management
  responsibilities; or
                     (B) [(2)]  who plays a role in emergency
  preparedness, response, or recovery; and
               (2)  an emergency management coordinator designated
  under Section 418.1015(c) by the emergency management director of a
  county with a population of 500,000 or more.
         (b)  Each person described by Subsection (a) shall complete a
  course of training provided or approved by the division of not less
  than three hours regarding the responsibilities of state and local
  governments under this chapter not later than the 180th day after
  the date the person:
               (1)  takes the oath of office, if the person is required
  to take an oath of office to assume the person's duties as a public
  officer; [or]
               (2)  otherwise assumes responsibilities as a public
  officer, if the person is not required to take an oath of office to
  assume the person's duties; or
               (3)  is designated as an emergency management
  coordinator under Section 418.1015(c).
         (c)  The division shall develop and provide a training course
  related to the emergency management responsibilities of
  state-level officers and a training course related to the emergency
  management responsibilities of officers and emergency management
  coordinators of political subdivisions. The division shall ensure
  that the training courses satisfy the requirements of Subsection
  (b).
         (e)  The division or other entity providing the training
  shall provide a certificate of course completion to a person
  [public officers] who completes [complete] the training required by
  this section.  A person [public officer] who completes the training
  required by this section shall maintain and make available for
  public inspection the record of the person's [public officer's]
  completion of the training.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than March 1, 2020, each person who is
  required to complete a course of training under Section 418.005,
  Government Code, as amended by this Act, must complete the
  training.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.