H.B. No. 88

	AN ACT
	relating to the evacuation and sheltering of service animals and
	household pets in a disaster.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  This Act shall be known as Simba's Law.
	SECTION 2.  Section 418.043, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 418.043.  OTHER POWERS AND DUTIES.  The division shall:
	(1)  determine requirements of the state and its
	political subdivisions for food, clothing, and other necessities in
	event of a disaster;
	(2)  procure and position supplies, medicines,
	materials, and equipment;
	(3)  adopt standards and requirements for local and
	interjurisdictional emergency management plans;
	(4)  periodically review local and interjurisdictional
	emergency management plans;
	(5)  coordinate deployment of mobile support units;
	(6)  establish and operate training programs and
	programs of public information or assist political subdivisions and
	emergency management agencies to establish and operate the
	programs;
	(7)  make surveys of public and private industries,
	resources, and facilities in the state that are necessary to carry
	out the purposes of this chapter;
	(8)  plan and make arrangements for the availability
	and use of any private facilities, services, and property and
	provide for payment for use under terms and conditions agreed on if
	the facilities are used and payment is necessary;
	(9)  establish a register of persons with types of
	training and skills important in disaster mitigation,
	preparedness, response, and recovery;
	(10)  establish a register of mobile and construction
	equipment and temporary housing available for use in a disaster;
	(11)  assist political subdivisions in developing
	plans for the humane evacuation, transport, and temporary
	sheltering of service animals and household pets in a disaster;
	(12)  prepare, for issuance by the governor, executive
	orders and regulations necessary or appropriate in coping with
	disasters;
	(13) [(12)]  cooperate with the federal government and
	any public or private agency or entity in achieving any purpose of
	this chapter and in implementing programs for disaster mitigation,
	preparation, response, and recovery; and
	(14) [(13)]  do other things necessary, incidental, or
	appropriate for the implementation of this chapter.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 88 was passed by the House on April
	27, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 132, Nays 1, 2 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 88 on May 16, 2007, and requested the appointment of a
	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
	on H.B. No. 88 on May 21, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 142,
	Nays 1, 2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 88 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 11, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
	88 on May 25, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor