By: Lucio S.B. No. 857
(Paul)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring training for certain emergency management
coordinators.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 418.005(a), (b), (c), and (e),
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to:
(1) an elected law enforcement officer or county
judge, or an appointed public officer of the state or of a political
subdivision, who has management or supervisory responsibilities
and:
(A) [(1)] whose position description, job
duties, or assignment includes emergency management
responsibilities; or
(B) [(2)] who plays a role in emergency
preparedness, response, or recovery; and
(2) an emergency management coordinator designated
under Section 418.1015(c) by the emergency management director of a
county with a population of 500,000 or more.
(b) Each person described by Subsection (a) shall complete a
course of training provided or approved by the division of not less
than three hours regarding the responsibilities of state and local
governments under this chapter not later than the 180th day after
the date the person:
(1) takes the oath of office, if the person is required
to take an oath of office to assume the person's duties as a public
officer; [or]
(2) otherwise assumes responsibilities as a public
officer, if the person is not required to take an oath of office to
assume the person's duties; or
(3) is designated as an emergency management
coordinator under Section 418.1015(c).
(c) The division shall develop and provide a training course
related to the emergency management responsibilities of
state-level officers and a training course related to the emergency
management responsibilities of officers and emergency management
coordinators of political subdivisions. The division shall ensure
that the training courses satisfy the requirements of Subsection
(b).
(e) The division or other entity providing the training
shall provide a certificate of course completion to a person
[public officers] who completes [complete] the training required by
this section. A person [public officer] who completes the training
required by this section shall maintain and make available for
public inspection the record of the person's [public officer's]
completion of the training.
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, each person who is
required to complete a course of training under Section 418.005,
Government Code, as amended by this Act, must complete the
training.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.