| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2025; February 24, 2025, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human |
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| 4 | | - | Services; April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable |
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| 5 | | - | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; |
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| 6 | | - | April 14, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1138 By: Miles |
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| 18 | | - | SECTION 1. Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended |
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| 19 | | - | by adding Section 370.010 to read as follows: |
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| 20 | | - | Sec. 370.010. GROUP HOME POLICIES IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES |
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| 21 | | - | AND COUNTIES. (a) In this section, "group home" has the meaning |
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| 22 | | - | assigned by Section 769.001, Health and Safety Code, as added by |
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| 23 | | - | Chapter 141 (S.B. 188), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular |
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| 24 | | - | Session, 2023. |
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| 25 | | - | (b) This section applies only to a municipality wholly or |
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| 26 | | - | partly located in a county with a population of more than 300,000 |
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| 27 | | - | and a county with a population of more than 300,000. |
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| 28 | | - | (c) A municipal or county law enforcement agency, a |
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| 29 | | - | municipal or county fire department, and any other municipal or |
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| 30 | | - | county department providing emergency medical services shall |
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| 31 | | - | develop policies to respond to an emergency occurring at a group |
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| 32 | | - | home, regardless of whether the group home holds a license. In |
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| 33 | | - | developing a policy under this subsection, a municipal or county |
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| 34 | | - | department shall establish any procedures necessary for an |
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| 35 | | - | efficient response to an emergency after considering the nature of |
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| 36 | | - | group homes. |
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| 37 | | - | SECTION 2. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular |
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| 38 | | - | Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act to Chapter 370, |
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| 39 | | - | Local Government Code, be harmonized with another Act of the 89th |
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| 40 | | - | Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, relating to nonsubstantive |
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| 41 | | - | additions to and corrections in enacted codes. |
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| 42 | | - | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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| 12 | + | SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 11, Local Government Code, is |
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| 13 | + | amended by adding Chapter 349 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | + | CHAPTER 349. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATED TO MUNICIPAL PUBLIC |
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| 15 | + | SAFETY |
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| 16 | + | Sec. 349.001. GROUP HOME POLICIES. (a) In this section, |
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| 17 | + | "group home" has the meaning assigned by Section 769.001, Health |
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| 18 | + | and Safety Code. |
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| 19 | + | (b) A municipal police department, a municipal fire |
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| 20 | + | department, and any other municipal department providing emergency |
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| 21 | + | medical services shall develop policies to respond to an emergency |
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| 22 | + | occurring at a group home, regardless of whether the group home |
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| 23 | + | holds a license. In developing a policy under this subsection, a |
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| 24 | + | municipal department shall establish any procedures necessary for |
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| 25 | + | an efficient response to an emergency after considering the nature |
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| 26 | + | of group homes. |
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| 27 | + | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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