81R11481 BEF-D
By: Rios Ybarra H.B. No. 2930
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment and funding of emergency medical
power stations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 418.042(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The division shall prepare and keep current a
comprehensive state emergency management plan. The plan may
include:
(1) provisions for prevention and minimization of
injury and damage caused by disaster;
(2) provisions for prompt and effective response to
disaster;
(3) provisions for emergency relief;
(4) provisions for energy emergencies;
(5) identification of areas particularly vulnerable
to disasters;
(6) recommendations for zoning, building
restrictions, and other land-use controls, safety measures for
securing mobile homes or other nonpermanent or semipermanent
structures, and other preventive and preparedness measures
designed to eliminate or reduce disasters or their impact;
(7) provisions for assistance to local officials in
designing local emergency management plans;
(8) authorization and procedures for the erection or
other construction of temporary works designed to protect against
or mitigate danger, damage, or loss from flood, fire, or other
disaster;
(9) preparation and distribution to the appropriate
state and local officials of state catalogs of federal, state, and
private assistance programs;
(10) organization of manpower and channels of
assistance;
(11) coordination of federal, state, and local
emergency management activities;
(12) coordination of the state emergency management
plan with the emergency management plans of the federal government;
(13) coordination of federal and state energy
emergency plans;
(14) provisions for education and training of local
officials on activation of the Emergency Alert System established
under 47 C.F.R. Part 11; [and]
(15) provisions for establishing, in cooperation with
local hospitals, emergency medical power stations where residents
affected by a power outage following a disaster can power medical
devices, including life support equipment, without visiting a
hospital; and
(16) other necessary matters relating to disasters.
SECTION 2. Section 418.073, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) A state agency, political subdivision, or hospital may
request funding from the disaster contingency fund to pay for the
costs of establishing and operating an emergency medical power
station where residents affected by a power outage following a
disaster can power medical devices, including life support
equipment, without visiting a hospital. To the extent funds are
available, the division shall approve all reasonable requests for
funding under this subsection.
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, 2009.