| 1 | 1 | | By: Price H.B. No. 3096 |
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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 a pilot program for carrying automated external |
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| 7 | 7 | | defibrillators in certain Department of Public Safety vehicles. |
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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. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is |
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| 10 | 10 | | amended by adding Section 411.0094 to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Sec. 411.0094. PILOT PROGRAM FOR CARRYING AUTOMATED |
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| 12 | 12 | | EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS IN CERTAIN DEPARTMENT VEHICLES. (a) The |
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| 13 | 13 | | department shall develop and implement a pilot program in the |
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| 14 | 14 | | department's West Texas Region and Northwest Texas Region that |
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| 15 | 15 | | requires each department vehicle used for highway patrol in those |
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| 16 | 16 | | regions to carry an automated external defibrillator. |
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| 17 | 17 | | (b) The department shall document each use of an automated |
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| 18 | 18 | | external defibrillator included in the pilot program under |
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| 19 | 19 | | Subsection (a) and the location of use, including the county in |
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| 20 | 20 | | which the defibrillator was used and the approximate address of |
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| 21 | 21 | | use. |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) Not later than December 1, 2028, the department shall |
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| 23 | 23 | | submit a written report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, |
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| 24 | 24 | | the speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing |
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| 25 | 25 | | committees of the house of |
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| 26 | 26 | | representatives and the senate with |
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| 27 | 27 | | primary jurisdiction over the department on the results of the |
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| 28 | 28 | | pilot program, including the information documented under |
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| 29 | 29 | | Subsection (b). |
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| 30 | 30 | | (d) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this |
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| 31 | 31 | | section. |
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| 32 | 32 | | (e) This section expires September 1, 2029. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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