Bill Text: TX SB572 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a feasibility study and report by the Texas Division of Emergency Management regarding the use of United States Postal Service employees, resources, and assets during a declared disaster.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-08 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB572 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB572-Introduced.html
  85R3527 JCG-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 572
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a feasibility study and report by the Texas Division of
  Emergency Management regarding the use of United States Postal
  Service employees, resources, and assets during a declared
  disaster.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 418.053 to read as follows:
         Sec. 418.053.  STUDY REGARDING AGREEMENT WITH UNITED STATES
  POSTAL SERVICE. (a) The division shall conduct a study to examine
  the feasibility of establishing an agreement with the United States
  Postal Service regarding the use of employees, resources, and
  assets within the postal service during a state of disaster to:
               (1)  identify residential or commercial structures
  that have been damaged;
               (2)  identify persons who reside in a damaged area and
  the medical or physical needs of those persons;
               (3)  help assess the damage to neighborhoods or
  communities; and
               (4)  assist in any other activity that the division
  determines to be necessary in responding to the disaster.
         (b)  Not later than November 1, 2019, the division shall:
               (1)  complete the study;
               (2)  report the results of the study to the lieutenant
  governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the
  standing committees of the house and the senate with jurisdiction
  over public safety matters; and
               (3)  post the results of the study on the division's
  Internet website.
         (c)  This section expires December 31, 2021.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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