Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 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, and enhancement of the effectiveness of 9-1-1 service as approve…

Sec. 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 population of at least 1.2 million. (b) In addition to use authorized or required by Se…

Sec. 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 provider collecting a fee or surcharge under this subchapter is warranted. The comptroller also may audit a servic…

Sec. 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 service user that fails to timely deliver the fees and the equalization…

Sec. 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 contracts. (b) In making contracts under this section, the commission shal…

Sec. 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 as provided by Sections 771.071 and 771.0711; (2) money deposited to the account under Section 771.0713(c-…

Sec. 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 regional emergen…

Sec. 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 to participate in any required training and to provide regul…

Sec. 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 regional emergency med…

Sec. 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 participating public safety answering points to…

Sec. 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 political subdivision that participates in the program may pay an appropriate share of the cost of the pro…

Sec. 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 than January 1 of each odd-numbered year. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 874, Se…

Sec. 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 of and volunteers at the center have the same protection from liability as a member o…

Sec. 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 commission's findings. (b) A member of the work group receives no additional compensation for serving on…

Sec. 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 U.S.C. Section 294a and has been awarded federal funding as an area health education center. (2…

Sec. 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 through a telemedicine medical service or telehealth s…

Sec. 771.153. PERSONNEL. The center shall provide the telemedicine medical service or telehealth service and related instruction for the pilot project through health care providers in regional trauma resource centers, including physicians, pharmacists, emergency medical personnel…

Sec. 771.154. PARTICIPATION IN PILOT PROJECT. (a) The center shall determine the trauma facilities and emergency medical services providers interested in participating in the pilot project. (b) A trauma facility or emergency medical services provider participating in the pilot pr…

Sec. 771.155. SELECTION OF PILOT 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 select trauma facilitie…

Sec. 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 the pilot project. (c) A political subdivision with a trauma facility that participates in …

Sec. 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 later than December 31, 2028. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 667 (H.B. 617), Sec…

Sec. 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. Employees of and volunteers at the regional trauma resource center have the same protection from liabi…

Sec. 771.159. PROJECT WORK GROUP. (a) The center may appoint a project work group to assist the center in developing, implementing, and evaluating the pilot project and preparing a report on the center's findings. (b) A member of the project work group is not entitled to compensa…

Sec. 771.160. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires September 1, 2029. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 667 (H.B. 617), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.

Sec. 771A.001. DIRECT ACCESS TO 9-1-1 SERVICE REQUIRED. (a) In this chapter: (1) "9-1-1 service" means a communications service that connects users to a public safety answering point through a 9-1-1 system. (2) "Business service user" means a user of business service that provide…

Sec. 772.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Automatic location identification" means a feature corresponding to automatic number identification by which the number provided by the automatic number identification feature is matched with the address or location of the telephon…

Sec. 772.002. INFORMATION RELATING TO COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF 9-1-1 EMERGENCY SERVICE FEE. (a) This section applies only to a district created under this chapter that collects a 9-1-1 emergency service fee from a service supplier or business service user. This section does n…

Sec. 772.003. 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 ex…

Sec. 772.101. SHORT TITLE. This subchapter may be cited as the 9-1-1 Emergency Number Act. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.

Sec. 772.102. PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish the number 9-1-1 as the primary emergency telephone number for use by certain local governments in this state and to encourage units of local government and combinations of the units to develop and improve e…

Sec. 772.103. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the board of managers of a district. (2) "District" means a communication district created under this subchapter. (3) "Principal municipality" means the municipality with the largest population in a county. Acts 198…

Sec. 772.104. APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies to a county with a population of more than 3.3 million and the adjacent territory described by Section 772.105 in which a district was created under Chapter 97, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, b…

Sec. 772.105. TERRITORY OF DISTRICT. (a) The territory of a district consists of: (1) the territory of the county for which the district is established; and (2) for each municipality partially located in the county for which the district is established, the territory of that muni…

Sec. 772.106. BOARD OF MANAGERS. (a) The district is governed by a board of managers consisting of: (1) one member appointed by the commissioners court of the county; (2) two members appointed by the mayor of the principal municipality, with approval of the city council; (3) one …

Sec. 772.107. POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD. (a) The board shall name, control, and manage the district. (b) The board may adopt rules for the operation of the district. (c) The board may contract with any public or private entity to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, includ…

Sec. 772.108. DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT. (a) The board shall appoint a director of the district and shall establish the director's compensation. The director must be qualified by training and experience for the position. (b) The board may remove the director at any time. (c) With the …

Sec. 772.109. BUDGET; ANNUAL REPORT; AUDIT. (a) The director shall prepare under the direction of the board an annual budget for the district. To be effective, the budget must be approved by the board and then presented to and approved by the commissioners court of the county for…

Sec. 772.110. ESTABLISHMENT OF 9-1-1 SERVICE. (a) A district shall provide 9-1-1 service to each participating jurisdiction through one or a combination of the following methods and features or equivalent state-of-the-art technology: (1) the transfer method; (2) the relay method;…

Sec. 772.111. PRIMARY EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER. The digits 9-1-1 are the primary emergency telephone number in a district. A public safety agency whose services are available through a 9-1-1 system may maintain a separate number or numbers for emergencies and shall maintain a s…

Sec. 772.112. TRANSMITTING REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY AID. (a) A 9-1-1 system established under this subchapter must be capable of transmitting requests for fire-fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, and medical services to a public safety agency or agencies that provide the requeste…

Sec. 772.113. POWERS OF DISTRICT. (a) The district is a public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this subchapter, including the capacity …

Sec. 772.114. 9-1-1 EMERGENCY SERVICE FEE. (a) The board may impose a 9-1-1 emergency service fee on service users in the district if authorized to do so by a majority of the votes cast in the election to confirm the creation of the district and by a majority vote of the governin…

Sec. 772.115. COLLECTION OF FEE. (a) Each billed service user is liable for the fee imposed under Section 772.114 until the fee is paid to the service supplier. The fee must be added to and stated separately in the service user's bill from the service supplier. The service suppli…

Sec. 772.116. DISTRICT DEPOSITORY. (a) The board shall select a depository for the district in the manner provided by law for the selection of a county depository. (b) A depository selected by the board is the district's depository for two years after the date of its selection an…

Sec. 772.117. ALLOWABLE EXPENSES. Allowable operating expenses of a district include all costs attributable to designing a 9-1-1 system and to all equipment and personnel necessary to establish and operate a public safety answering point and other related answering points that th…

Sec. 772.118. NUMBER AND LOCATION IDENTIFICATION. (a) As part of computerized 9-1-1 service, a service supplier shall furnish for each call the telephone number of the subscribers and the address associated with the number. (b) A business service user that provides residential fa…