Bill Text: TX SB1952 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency management for cyber attacks against this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1952-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1952 | |
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| relating to emergency management for cyber attacks against this | ||
| state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 418.002, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 418.002. PURPOSES. The purposes of this chapter are | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) reduce vulnerability of people and communities of | ||
| this state to damage, injury, and loss of life and property | ||
| resulting from natural or man-made catastrophes, riots, [ |
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| hostile military or paramilitary action, or cyber attacks; | ||
| (2) prepare for prompt and efficient rescue, care, and | ||
| treatment of persons victimized or threatened by disaster; | ||
| (3) provide a setting conducive to the rapid and | ||
| orderly restoration and rehabilitation of persons and property | ||
| affected by disasters; | ||
| (4) clarify and strengthen the roles of the governor, | ||
| state agencies, the judicial branch of state government, and local | ||
| governments in prevention of, preparation for, response to, and | ||
| recovery from disasters; | ||
| (5) authorize and provide for cooperation in disaster | ||
| mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; | ||
| (6) authorize and provide for coordination of | ||
| activities relating to disaster mitigation, preparedness, | ||
| response, and recovery by agencies and officers of this state, and | ||
| similar state-local, interstate, federal-state, and foreign | ||
| activities in which the state and its political subdivisions may | ||
| participate; | ||
| (7) provide an emergency management system embodying | ||
| all aspects of predisaster preparedness and postdisaster response; | ||
| (8) assist in mitigation of disasters caused or | ||
| aggravated by inadequate planning for and regulation of public and | ||
| private facilities and land use; and | ||
| (9) provide the authority and mechanism to respond to | ||
| an energy emergency. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 418.004, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivision (1-a) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (1) "Cyber attack" means an attempt to damage, | ||
| disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to a computer, computer | ||
| network, or computer system. | ||
| (1-a) "Disaster" means the occurrence or imminent | ||
| threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or | ||
| property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including | ||
| fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, wave action, oil spill or | ||
| other water contamination, volcanic activity, epidemic, air | ||
| contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, riot, | ||
| hostile military or paramilitary action, cyber attack, extreme | ||
| heat, other public calamity requiring emergency action, or energy | ||
| emergency. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 418.0195(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The governor may order the Department of Information | ||
| Resources to disconnect a computer network from the Internet in the | ||
| event of a cyber attack or other substantial external threat to the | ||
| computer network. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
