By: Estes S.B. No. 1393
(Pickett, Flynn)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to homeland security strategy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 421.002,
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The governor shall direct homeland security in this
state and shall develop a statewide homeland security strategy that
improves the state's ability to:
(1) protect against [detect and deter threats to]
homeland security threats and hazards;
(2) respond to homeland security emergencies; [and]
(3) recover from homeland security emergencies;
(4) mitigate the loss of life and property by
lessening the impact of future disasters; and
(5) prevent significant criminal and terrorist
attacks.
(c) The governor's homeland security strategy must
complement and operate in coordination with [the] federal strategic
guidance on homeland security [strategy].
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 421.021, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The Homeland Security Council is composed of the
governor or the governor's designee, the speaker of the house of
representatives or the speaker's designee, the lieutenant governor
or the lieutenant governor's designee, and one representative of
each of the following entities, appointed by the single statewide
elected or appointed governing officer, administrative head, or
chair, as appropriate, of the entity:
(1) Department of Agriculture;
(2) office of the attorney general;
(3) General Land Office;
(4) Public Utility Commission of Texas;
(5) Department of State Health Services;
(6) Department of Information Resources;
(7) Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas;
(8) Texas Division of Emergency Management;
(9) adjutant general's department;
(10) Texas Commission on Environmental Quality;
(11) Railroad Commission of Texas;
(12) Texas [Strategic] Military Preparedness
[Planning] Commission;
(13) Texas Department of Transportation;
(14) Commission on State Emergency Communications;
(15) Office of State-Federal Relations;
(16) secretary of state;
(17) the committee of the senate having jurisdiction
over homeland security [Senate Committee on Transportation and
Homeland Security];
(18) the committee of the house of representatives
having jurisdiction over homeland security [House Committee on
Defense and Veterans' Affairs];
(19) Texas Animal Health Commission;
(20) Texas Association of Regional Councils;
(21) Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standards and Education;
(22) state fire marshal's office;
(23) Texas Education Agency;
(24) Texas Commission on Fire Protection;
(25) Parks and Wildlife Department;
(26) Texas A&M Forest Service; and
(27) Texas Water Development Board.
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, 2013.