By: Phillips (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 3178
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
May 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture, Rural Affairs, and Homeland Security; May 15, 2013,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0;
May 15, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas Statewide Mutual Aid System.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 418.115(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A request for mutual aid assistance may be submitted
verbally or in writing. If a request is submitted verbally, it
must be confirmed in writing [not later than the 30th day after the
date the request was made].
SECTION 2. Section 418.1181(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) If a local government entity requests mutual aid
assistance from another local government entity under the system
that requires a response that exceeds 12 consecutive hours, the
requesting local government entity shall reimburse the actual costs
of providing mutual aid assistance to the responding local
government entity, including costs for personnel, operation and
maintenance of equipment, damaged equipment, food, lodging, and
transportation, incurred by the responding local government entity
in response to a request for reimbursement. Local government
entities with a mutual aid agreement when the request for mutual aid
assistance is made are subject to the agreement's terms of
reimbursement, as provided by Section 418.111.
SECTION 3. Section 418.114, Government Code, is repealed.
SECTION 4. Sections 418.115(a) and 418.1181(a), Government
Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to mutual aid assistance
requested on or after the effective date of this Act. Mutual aid
assistance requested before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the aid was requested, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. 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, 2013.
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