Bill Text: TX HB1296 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a disaster case management system by the General Land Office.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1296 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1296-Comm_Sub.html

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86R23870 AAF-D
By: Davis of Harris H.B. No. 1296
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1296:
By: Calanni C.S.H.B. No. 1296

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of a disaster case management system by the
General Land Office.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 418.193 to read as follows:
Sec. 418.193. DISASTER CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. (a) The
General Land Office shall develop and maintain an electronic
disaster case management system. The system must:
(1) collect all information needed to obtain disaster
assistance from an individual who needs housing-related assistance
as a result of a disaster; and
(2) allow the individual to designate the entities to
which an application for assistance and other information may be
sent, including the General Land Office, organized volunteer
groups, and local nonprofit organizations.
(b) The General Land Office may coordinate with federal,
state, and local agencies and nongovernmental entities, including
private nonprofit organizations, for use of the system under
Subsection (a) to gather data from and share information with and
between those entities to streamline applications submitted by
individual households to relevant disaster assistance providers.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.