Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 436 - Texas Military Preparedness Commission

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 436.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Texas Military Preparedness Commission. (2) "Defense community" has the meaning assigned by Section 397.001, Local Government Code. (3)...

SUBCHAPTER B ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 436.002 - Commission
  The commission is attached for administrative purposes to the office of the governor. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 3, eff. May...
• Texas Section 436.051 - Composition; Eligibility
  (a) The commission is composed of: (1) 13 public members, appointed by the governor; and (2) the following ex officio members: (A) the chair of...
• Texas Section 436.052 - Terms And Officers; Ex Officio Members; Designation Of Representative
  (a) The 13 public members of the commission serve staggered terms of six years with the terms of four or five members expiring February 1...
• Texas Section 436.053 - Compensation And Expenses
  (a) A public member of the commission is not entitled to compensation but is entitled to reimbursement, from commission funds, for the travel expenses incurred...
• Texas Section 436.054 - Meetings
  (a) The commission shall meet at least quarterly. The commission may meet at other times at the call of the presiding officer or as provided...
• Texas Section 436.055 - Conflict Of Interest
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined statewide association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to...
• Texas Section 436.056 - Removal
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the commission that a public member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the...
• Texas Section 436.0561 - Training
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the commission may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
• Texas Section 436.057 - Director; Staff
  (a) The commission shall, subject to approval of the governor, hire a director to serve as the chief executive officer of the commission and to...
• Texas Section 436.058 - Public Access
  The commission shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the commission and to speak on any...
• Texas Section 436.059 - Equal Employment Opportunity
  (a) The director or the director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program of equal employment opportunity to ensure...
• Texas Section 436.060 - Qualifications And Standards Of Conduct
  The director or the director's designee shall provide to members of the commission and to commission employees, as often as necessary, information regarding the requirements...
• Texas Section 436.062 - Complaints
  (a) The commission shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the commission. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
• Texas Section 436.063 - Use Of Alternative Procedures
  (a) The commission shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008 for the adoption of...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 436.064 - Technology Policy
  The commission shall develop and implement a policy requiring the director and commission employees to research and propose appropriate technological solutions to improve the commission's...
• Texas Section 436.101 - General Powers And Duties
  (a) The commission shall advise the governor and the legislature on defense and military issues. (b) The commission shall meet not less than once each...
• Texas Section 436.102 - Consulting Agreements
  With prior approval of the governor, the commission may enter into an agreement with a consulting firm to provide information and assistance on a pending...
• Texas Section 436.103 - Biennial Report; Annual Meeting
  (a) In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section 2151.002. (b) Not later than July 1 of each even-numbered year, the commission...
• Texas Section 436.104 - Coordinating Assistance For Evaluation Of Military Base
  When a commander of a military installation receives a copy of the evaluation criteria for the base under the United States Department of Defense base...

SUBCHAPTER D FISCAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 436.105 - Military Base Realignment And Closure Task Force; Expiration Date
  (a) The commission shall establish a task force to seek advice to prepare for possible action by the United States Department of Defense related to...
• Texas Section 436.152 - Analysis Of Projects That Add Military Or Defense Value; Financing
  (a) A defense community may submit the community's military base or defense facility value enhancement statement prepared under Chapter 397, Local Government Code, to the...
• Texas Section 436.153 - Loans
  (a) The commission may provide a loan of financial assistance to a defense community for a project that will enhance the military or defense value...
• Texas Section 436.1531 - Loans For Communities Adversely Affected By Defense Base Reduction
  (a) The commission may provide a loan of financial assistance to a defense community for an economic development project that minimizes the negative effects of...
• Texas Section 436.1532 - Loans For Communities Positively Affected By Defense Base Restructuring
  (a) The commission may provide a loan of financial assistance to a defense community for an infrastructure project to accommodate new or expanded military missions...
• Texas Section 436.154 - Loan Process
  (a) The commission shall adopt rules, in consultation with the Texas Public Finance Authority, that contain the criteria for evaluating the credit of a loan...
• Texas Section 436.155 - Incurrence Of Debt By Public Entity
  (a) A defense community in this state may borrow money from the state, including by direct loan, based on the credit of the defense community...
• Texas Section 436.156 - Texas Military Value Revolving Loan Account
  (a) The Texas military value revolving loan account is an account in the general revenue fund. (b) The account may be used only for loans...
• Texas Section 436.157 - Gifts And Grants
  The commission may solicit and accept gifts and grants from any source for the purposes of this chapter. The commission shall deposit a gift or...
• Texas Section 436.158 - Issuance Of General Obligation Bonds And Notes For Military Value Account
  (a) The Texas Public Finance Authority may issue and sell general obligation bonds and notes of the state, as authorized by Section 49-n, Article III,...

SUBCHAPTER E GRANTS

• Texas Section 436.159 - Appropriation Required
  In accordance with Section 49-n, Article III, Texas Constitution, general revenue is to be appropriated to the Texas Public Finance Authority in an amount determined...
• Texas Section 436.201 - Eligibility For Grant
  (a) The following local governmental entities are eligible for a grant under this subchapter: (1) a municipality or county that is a defense community; (2)...
• Texas Section 436.202 - Grant Criteria
  (a) From money appropriated for this purpose, the commission may make a grant to an eligible local governmental entity to: (1) enable the entity to...
• Texas Section 436.203 - Use Of Proceeds
  (a) A local governmental entity may use the proceeds of a grant awarded under this subchapter for the purchase of property, including the purchase of...
• Texas Section 436.204 - Application For Grant
  (a) A local governmental entity may apply for a grant under this subchapter to the commission on a form prescribed by the commission. The commission...
• Texas Section 436.205 - Panel: Evaluation Of Application
  (a) The commission shall establish a defense economic adjustment assistance panel composed of at least three and not more than five professional full-time employees of...
• Texas Section 436.206 - Making Of Grant
  The panel shall submit its scores to the commission. The commission shall use the scores to determine whether to make a grant to an applicant....
• Texas Section 436.207 - Defense Community With More Than One Military Base
  For purposes of the preference for adversely affected defense communities, a defense community that contains or is in proximity to more than one military base...

Last modified: September 28, 2016