Tex. Gov't Code § 418.042 · Subchapter C. TEXAS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The division shall prepare and keep current a comprehensive state emergency management plan. The plan may include:
(1) provisions for prevention and minimization of injury and damage caused by disaster;
(2) provisions for prompt and effective response to disaster;
(3) provisions for emergency relief;
(4) provisions for energy emergencies;
(5) identification of areas particularly vulnerable to disasters;
(6) recommendations for zoning, building restrictions, and other land-use controls, safety measures for securing mobile homes or other nonpermanent or semipermanent structures, and other preventive and preparedness measures designed to eliminate or reduce disasters or their impact;
(7) provisions for assistance to local officials in designing local emergency management plans;
(8) authorization and procedures for the erection or other construction of temporary works designed to protect against or mitigate danger, damage, or loss from flood, fire, or other disaster;
(9) preparation and distribution to the appropriate state and local officials of state catalogs of federal, state, and private assistance programs;
(10) organization of manpower and channels of assistance;
(11) coordination of federal, state, and local emergency management activities;
(12) coordination of the state emergency management plan with the emergency management plans of the federal government;
(13) coordination of federal and state energy emergency plans;
(14) provisions for providing information to local officials on activation of the Emergency Alert System established under 47 C.F.R. Part 11;
(15) a database of public facilities that may be used under Section 418.017 to shelter individuals during a disaster, including air-conditioned facilities for shelter during an extreme heat disaster and fortified structures for shelter during a wind disaster;
(16) provisions for quickly replenishing the food supplies of area food banks or food pantries following a disaster;
(17) provisions for protecting public health; and
(18) other necessary matters relating to disasters.
(b) In preparing and revising the state emergency management plan, the division shall seek the advice and assistance of local government, business, labor, industry, agriculture, civic organizations, volunteer organizations, and community leaders.
(c) All or part of the state emergency management plan may be incorporated into regulations of the division or executive orders that have the force and effect of law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 258 (S.B. 11), Sec. 7.01, eff. September 1, 2007.
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 365 (H.B. 1326), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009.
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1280 (H.B. 1831), Sec. 1.04, eff. September 1, 2009.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 11.009, eff. September 1, 2011.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 889 (S.B. 1780), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2021.
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