By: Price H.B. No. 3096
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a pilot program for carrying automated external
defibrillators in certain Department of Public Safety vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.0094 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.0094. PILOT PROGRAM FOR CARRYING AUTOMATED
EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS IN CERTAIN DEPARTMENT VEHICLES. (a) The
department shall develop and implement a pilot program in the
department's West Texas Region and Northwest Texas Region that
requires each department vehicle used for highway patrol in those
regions to carry an automated external defibrillator.
(b) The department shall document each use of an automated
external defibrillator included in the pilot program under
Subsection (a) and the location of use, including the county in
which the defibrillator was used and the approximate address of
use.
(c) Not later than December 1, 2028, the department shall
submit a written report to the governor, the lieutenant governor,
the speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing
committees of the house of
representatives and the senate with
primary jurisdiction over the department on the results of the
pilot program, including the information documented under
Subsection (b).
(d) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this
section.
(e) This section expires September 1, 2029.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.