By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1566
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the acquisition, dissemination, and use of certain
geographic information system data.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 16.021, Water Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) Under the guidance of the TGIC, the executive
administrator shall:
(1) further develop the Texas Natural Resources
Information System by promoting and providing for effective
acquisition, archiving, documentation, indexing, and dissemination
of natural resource and related digital and nondigital data and
information;
(2) obtain information in response to disagreements
regarding names and name spellings for natural and cultural
features in the state and provide this information to the Board on
Geographic Names of the United States Department of the Interior;
(3) make recommendations to the Board on Geographic
Names of the United States Department of the Interior for naming any
natural or cultural feature subject to the limitations provided by
Subsection (f);
(4) make recommendations to the Department of
Information Resources to adopt and promote standards that
facilitate sharing of digital natural resource data and related
socioeconomic data among federal, state, and local governments and
other interested parties;
(5) acquire and disseminate natural resource and
related socioeconomic data describing the Texas-Mexico border
region; [and]
(6) coordinate, conduct, and facilitate the
development, maintenance, and use of mutually compatible statewide
digital base maps depicting natural resources and man-made
features; and
(7) acquire and make available to state agencies
geographic information system data for areas of the United States
and Mexico that are within 150 miles of the Texas border.
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2010, the Texas
Geographic Information Council shall issue a report containing
recommendations on how the state and local governmental entities
may make best use of geographic information system data to respond
to emergencies, including data provided by federal, state, and
local governmental entities and private entities.
SECTION 3. This Act does not make an appropriation. A
provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program,
creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental
entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the
legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the
provision.
SECTION 4. 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.