LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION April 2, 2009 TO: Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2532 by Bonnen (relating to coordingating information regarding the location of infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical to the public health and safety or for emergency management purposes.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would require municipalities and counties to provide the Governors Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) with the location of infrastructures in the municipalities or counties' jurisdiction that are critical to public health or safety and that require electric utility services. The bill would require GDEM to provide to each electric utility that owns electric transmissions and distribution lines the critical infrastructure location information for each municipality or county served by that utility. Local Government Impact The bill would amend the Government Code requiring municipalities and counties to provide the Division of Emergency Planning with the location of infrastructure within the municipalitys' or counties' jurisdiction critical to public health and safety that requires electricity to respond to a disaster or an emergency. The required information on a critical infrastructure form would include the location of police, fire, and sewage lift stations, water treatment facilities, hospitals, and relevant government buildings. The form must be updated and filed with the division annually either electronically or by mail. The bill also would require an electric utility receiving critical infrastructure information received from the division to maintain and update the information annually. Under current law, local entities are required to prepare and maintain emergency management plans; therefore, the costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill are not anticipated to be significant. Source Agencies:301 Office of the Governor, 405 Department of Public Safety, 473 Public Utility Commission of Texas LBB Staff: JOB, KK, MS, BTA, TP
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 2, 2009
TO: Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2532 by Bonnen (relating to coordingating information regarding the location of infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical to the public health and safety or for emergency management purposes.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
TO: Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB2532 by Bonnen (relating to coordingating information regarding the location of infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical to the public health and safety or for emergency management purposes.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB2532 by Bonnen (relating to coordingating information regarding the location of infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical to the public health and safety or for emergency management purposes.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
HB2532 by Bonnen (relating to coordingating information regarding the location of infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical to the public health and safety or for emergency management purposes.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would require municipalities and counties to provide the Governors Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) with the location of infrastructures in the municipalities or counties' jurisdiction that are critical to public health or safety and that require electric utility services. The bill would require GDEM to provide to each electric utility that owns electric transmissions and distribution lines the critical infrastructure location information for each municipality or county served by that utility.
The bill would require municipalities and counties to provide the Governors Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) with the location of infrastructures in the municipalities or counties' jurisdiction that are critical to public health or safety and that require electric utility services. The bill would require GDEM to provide to each electric utility that owns electric transmissions and distribution lines the critical infrastructure location information for each municipality or county served by that utility.
Local Government Impact
The bill would amend the Government Code requiring municipalities and counties to provide the Division of Emergency Planning with the location of infrastructure within the municipalitys' or counties' jurisdiction critical to public health and safety that requires electricity to respond to a disaster or an emergency. The required information on a critical infrastructure form would include the location of police, fire, and sewage lift stations, water treatment facilities, hospitals, and relevant government buildings. The form must be updated and filed with the division annually either electronically or by mail. The bill also would require an electric utility receiving critical infrastructure information received from the division to maintain and update the information annually. Under current law, local entities are required to prepare and maintain emergency management plans; therefore, the costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill are not anticipated to be significant.
The bill would amend the Government Code requiring municipalities and counties to provide the Division of Emergency Planning with the location of infrastructure within the municipalitys' or counties' jurisdiction critical to public health and safety that requires electricity to respond to a disaster or an emergency. The required information on a critical infrastructure form would include the location of police, fire, and sewage lift stations, water treatment facilities, hospitals, and relevant government buildings. The form must be updated and filed with the division annually either electronically or by mail.
The bill also would require an electric utility receiving critical infrastructure information received from the division to maintain and update the information annually.
Under current law, local entities are required to prepare and maintain emergency management plans; therefore, the costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill are not anticipated to be significant.
Source Agencies: 301 Office of the Governor, 405 Department of Public Safety, 473 Public Utility Commission of Texas
301 Office of the Governor, 405 Department of Public Safety, 473 Public Utility Commission of Texas
LBB Staff: JOB, KK, MS, BTA, TP
JOB, KK, MS, BTA, TP