Texas Health And Safety Code Title 9, Chapter 771 - State Administration Of Emergency Communications

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B COMMISSION ON STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

• Texas Section 771.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Commission on State Emergency Communications. (2) "Business service user" means a user of business service that provides telecommunications...
• Texas Section 771.031 - Composition Of Commission
  (a) The Commission on State Emergency Communications is composed of nine appointed members and three ex officio members as provided by this section. (b) The...
• Texas Section 771.0315 - Eligibility For Membership Or To Be General Counsel
  (a) A person is not eligible for appointment under Section 771.031 to represent the general public if the person or the person's spouse: (1) is...
• Texas Section 771.0316 - Grounds For Removal Of Commission Member
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the commission that a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications...
• Texas Section 771.032 - Application Of Sunset Act
  The Commission on State Emergency Communications is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter,...
• Texas Section 771.033 - Meetings
  The commission shall meet in Austin and at other places fixed by the commission at the call of the presiding officer. Acts 1989, 71st Leg.,...
• Texas Section 771.034 - Expenses
  The expenses of a member of the commission shall be paid as provided by the General Appropriations Act. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec....
• Texas Section 771.035 - Staff; Personnel Policies
  (a) The commission may employ persons as necessary to carry out its functions. (b) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and...
• Texas Section 771.036 - Standards Of Conduct
  The executive director or the executive director's designee shall provide to members of the commission and to employees of the commission, as often as necessary,...
• Texas Section 771.037 - Commission Member 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 771.038 - Public Comments
  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 771.039 - 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...

SUBCHAPTER C ADMINISTRATION OF STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

• Texas Section 771.040 - Negotiated Rulemaking And Alternative Dispute Resolution
  (a) The commission shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008, Government Code, for the...
• Texas Section 771.051 - Powers And Duties Of Commission
  (a) The commission is the state's authority on emergency communications. The commission shall: (1) administer the implementation of statewide 9-1-1 service and the poison control...
• Texas Section 771.0511 - Emergency Services Internet Protocol Network; Emergency Communications Advisory Committee
  (a) In this section: (1) "Advisory committee" means the Emergency Communications Advisory Committee. (2) "State-level emergency services Internet Protocol network" means a private Internet Protocol...
• Texas Section 771.0512 - Obligations Or Requirements Concerning Voice Over Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol Enabled Service, Or Commercial Mobile Service Or Wireline Service
  Defining "9-1-1 service" as a communications service and other amendments effective September 1, 2013, do not expand or change the authority or jurisdiction of a...
• Texas Section 771.052 - Agency Cooperation
  Each public agency and regional planning commission shall cooperate with the commission to the fullest extent possible. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 771.053 - Statewide Limitation On Liability Of Service Providers And Certain Public Officers
  (a) A service provider of communications service involved in providing 9-1-1 service, a manufacturer of equipment used in providing 9-1-1 service, a developer of software...
• Texas Section 771.054 - Effect Of Chapter On Emergency Communication Districts
  Except as expressly provided by this chapter, this chapter does not affect the existence or operation of an emergency communication district or prevent the addition...
• Texas Section 771.055 - Strategic Planning
  (a) Each regional planning commission shall develop a regional plan for the establishment and operation of 9-1-1 service throughout the region that the regional planning...
• Texas Section 771.056 - Submission Of Regional Plan To Commission
  (a) The regional planning commission shall submit a regional plan, or an amendment to the plan, to the commission for approval or disapproval. (b) In...
• Texas Section 771.057 - Amendment Of Plan
  A regional plan may be amended according to the procedure determined by the commission. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,...
• Texas Section 771.058 - Optional Participation In Plan
  (a) In a county with a population of 120,000 or less, the county or another public agency, other than the state, located in the county...
• Texas Section 771.059 - Deadline For Statewide 9-1-1 Service
  Before September 1, 1995, all parts of the state must be covered by 9-1-1 service. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 771.060 - Business Providing Residential Telephone Switches
  A business service user that provides residential facilities and owns or leases a private telephone switch used to provide telephone service to facility residents shall...
• Texas Section 771.061 - Statewide Confidentiality Of Information
  (a) Information that a service provider of communications service is required to furnish to a governmental entity, including a regional planning commission, emergency communications district,...
• Texas Section 771.062 - Local Adoption Of State Rule
  (a) An emergency communication district may adopt any provision of this chapter or any commission rule. The commission may enforce a provision or rule adopted...

SUBCHAPTER D FINANCING STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

• Texas Section 771.063 - Definition Of Local Exchange Access Line And Equivalent Local Exchange Access Line
  (a) The advisory commission shall determine by rulemaking what constitutes a local exchange access line and an equivalent local exchange access line for all 9-1-1...
• Texas Section 771.071 - Emergency Service Fee
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the commission may impose a 9-1-1 emergency service fee on each local exchange access line or equivalent...
• Texas Section 771.0711 - Emergency Service Fee For Wireless Telecommunications Connections
  (a) To provide for automatic number identification and automatic location identification of wireless 9-1-1 calls, the commission shall impose on each wireless telecommunications connection a...
• Texas Section 771.0712 - Prepaid 9-1-1 Emergency Service Fee
  (a) To ensure that all 9-1-1 agencies under Section 418.051, Government Code, are adequately funded, beginning on June 1, 2010, a prepaid wireless 9-1-1 emergency...
• Texas Section 771.072 - Equalization Surcharge
  (a) In addition to the fees imposed under Sections 771.071 and 771.0711, the commission shall impose a 9-1-1 equalization surcharge on each local exchange access...
• Texas Section 771.0725 - Establishment Of Rates For Fees
  (a) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 448, Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013. (b) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 771.073 - Collection Of Fees And Surcharges
  (a) A customer on which a fee or surcharge is imposed under this subchapter is liable for the fee or surcharge in the same manner...
• Texas Section 771.0735 - Sourcing Of Charges For Mobile Telecommunications Services
  The federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act (4 U.S.C. Sections 116-126) governs the sourcing of charges for mobile telecommunications services. In accordance with that Act: (1)...
• Texas Section 771.074 - Exemption
  A fee or surcharge authorized by this subchapter, Chapter 772, or a home-rule municipality may not be imposed on or collected from the state or...
• Texas Section 771.075 - Use Of Revenue
  Except as provided by Section 771.0751, 771.072(e), 771.072(f), or 771.073(e), fees and surcharges collected under this subchapter may be used only for planning, development, provision,...
• Texas Section 771.0751 - Use Of Revenue In Certain Counties
  (a) This section applies only to the use of fees and surcharges collected under this subchapter in the county that has the highest population within...
• Texas Section 771.0751 - Use Of Revenue In Certain Counties
  (a) This section applies only to the use of fees and surcharges collected under this subchapter in a county subject to this subchapter with a...
• Texas Section 771.076 - Audits
  (a) The commission or an employee of the commission may notify the comptroller of any irregularity that may indicate that an audit of a service...
• Texas Section 771.077 - Collection Of Fees And Surcharges
  (a) The comptroller may establish collection procedures to collect past due amounts and may recover the costs of collection from a service provider or business...
• Texas Section 771.078 - Contracts For Services
  (a) The commission shall contract with regional planning commissions for the provision of 9-1-1 service. The commission by rule shall adopt standard provisions for the...

SUBCHAPTER E EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH

• Texas Section 771.079 - 9-1-1 Services Fee Fund
  (a) The 9-1-1 services fee fund is an account in the general revenue fund. (b) The account consists of: (1) fees deposited in the fund...
• Texas Section 771.102 - Establishment Of The Emergency Medical Dispatch Resource Centers Program
  (a) The commission, with the assistance of the advisory council appointed under Section 773.012, shall administer the program in which emergency medical dispatchers located in...
• Texas Section 771.103 - Participation In Program
  (a) The commission shall determine which public safety answering points are interested in participating in the program. (b) Participating public safety answering points must agree...
• Texas Section 771.104 - Selection Of Program Participants And Regional Emergency Medical Dispatch Resource Centers
  (a) The commission, with the assistance of the advisory council, may select public safety answering points to participate in the program or to serve as...
• Texas Section 771.105 - Criteria For Emergency Medical Dispatch Intervention
  The commission, with the assistance of the advisory council, shall define criteria that establish the need for emergency medical dispatch intervention to be used by...
• Texas Section 771.106 - Funding Of Program
  (a) State funds may be appropriated to the commission to fund the program. (b) The commission may seek grant funding for the program. (c) A...
• Texas Section 771.107 - Report To Legislature
  The commission shall biennially report its findings to the governor, the presiding officer of each house of the legislature, and the advisory council no later...
• Texas Section 771.108 - Liability
  The operations of the regional emergency medical dispatch resource center are considered to be the provision of 9-1-1 services for purposes of Section 771.053. Employees...

SUBCHAPTER F NEXT GENERATION 9-1-1 TELEMEDICINE MEDICAL SERVICES PILOT PROJECT

• Texas Section 771.109 - Work Group
  (a) The commission may appoint a program work group to assist the commission in implementing and evaluating the program and preparing a report on the...
• Texas Section 771.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Center" means the area health education center at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center that meets the requirements of 42...
• Texas Section 771.152 - Establishment Of Pilot Project
  (a) The commission, with the assistance of the center, shall establish a pilot project to provide emergency medical services instruction and emergency prehospital care instruction...
• Texas Section 771.153 - Staff
  The center shall provide the telemedicine medical service and related instruction for the pilot project through health care providers in regional trauma resource centers, including...
• Texas Section 771.154 - Participation In Pilot Project
  (a) The center shall determine the trauma facilities and emergency medical services providers that are interested in participating in the pilot project. (b) A trauma...
• Texas Section 771.155 - Selection Of Project Participants And Regional Trauma Resource Centers
  (a) The center, with the assistance of the commission, may select trauma facilities and emergency medical services providers to participate in the pilot project and...
• Texas Section 771.156 - Funding Of Pilot Project
  (a) Money collected under Section 771.072(f) may be appropriated to the commission to fund the pilot project. (b) The center may seek grants to fund...
• Texas Section 771.157 - Report To Legislature
  The center, in cooperation with the commission, shall report its findings to the governor and the presiding officer of each house of the legislature, not...
• Texas Section 771.158 - Liability
  The operations of the center and a regional trauma resource center are considered to be the provision of 9-1-1 services for purposes of Section 771.053....
• Texas Section 771.159 - Work Group
  (a) The center may appoint a project work group to assist the center in developing, implementing, and evaluating the project and preparing a report on...
• Texas Section 771.160 - Expiration
  This subchapter expires January 1, 2021. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 457 (H.B. 479), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2015.

Last modified: September 28, 2016