| 1 | 1 | | By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1566 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the acquisition, dissemination, and use of certain |
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| 7 | 7 | | geographic information system data. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 16.021, Water Code, is |
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| 10 | 10 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (e) Under the guidance of the TGIC, the executive |
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| 12 | 12 | | administrator shall: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) further develop the Texas Natural Resources |
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| 14 | 14 | | Information System by promoting and providing for effective |
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| 15 | 15 | | acquisition, archiving, documentation, indexing, and dissemination |
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| 16 | 16 | | of natural resource and related digital and nondigital data and |
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| 17 | 17 | | information; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) obtain information in response to disagreements |
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| 19 | 19 | | regarding names and name spellings for natural and cultural |
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| 20 | 20 | | features in the state and provide this information to the Board on |
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| 21 | 21 | | Geographic Names of the United States Department of the Interior; |
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| 22 | 22 | | (3) make recommendations to the Board on Geographic |
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| 23 | 23 | | Names of the United States Department of the Interior for naming any |
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| 24 | 24 | | natural or cultural feature subject to the limitations provided by |
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| 25 | 25 | | Subsection (f); |
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| 26 | 26 | | (4) make recommendations to the Department of |
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| 27 | 27 | | Information Resources to adopt and promote standards that |
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| 28 | 28 | | facilitate sharing of digital natural resource data and related |
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| 29 | 29 | | socioeconomic data among federal, state, and local governments and |
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| 30 | 30 | | other interested parties; |
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| 31 | 31 | | (5) acquire and disseminate natural resource and |
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| 32 | 32 | | related socioeconomic data describing the Texas-Mexico border |
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| 33 | 33 | | region; [and] |
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| 34 | 34 | | (6) coordinate, conduct, and facilitate the |
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| 35 | 35 | | development, maintenance, and use of mutually compatible statewide |
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| 36 | 36 | | digital base maps depicting natural resources and man-made |
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| 37 | 37 | | features; and |
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| 38 | 38 | | (7) acquire and make available to state agencies |
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| 39 | 39 | | geographic information system data for areas of the United States |
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| 40 | 40 | | and Mexico that are within 150 miles of the Texas border. |
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| 41 | 41 | | SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2010, the Texas |
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| 42 | 42 | | Geographic Information Council shall issue a report containing |
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| 43 | 43 | | recommendations on how the state and local governmental entities |
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| 44 | 44 | | may make best use of geographic information system data to respond |
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| 45 | 45 | | to emergencies, including data provided by federal, state, and |
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| 46 | 46 | | local governmental entities and private entities. |
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| 47 | 47 | | SECTION 3. This Act does not make an appropriation. A |
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| 48 | 48 | | provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program, |
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| 49 | 49 | | creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental |
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| 50 | 50 | | entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the |
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| 51 | 51 | | legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the |
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| 52 | 52 | | provision. |
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| 53 | 53 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 54 | 54 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 55 | 55 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 56 | 56 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 57 | 57 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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