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House bill would create statewide volunteer registry, emergency-manager certification and mass-fatality rapid-response teams
Summary
House Select Committee members considered House Bill 1, which would require mass-fatality training for justices of the peace in counties without medical examiners, create a licensed emergency-manager credential, establish a statewide volunteer-management system, and form mass-fatality rapid-response teams.
House Select Committee members considered House Bill 1, a broad package of proposals aimed at improving mass-fatality operations, volunteer management and emergency-manager qualifications after recent catastrophic flooding.
The bill would require justices of the peace (JPs) in counties without a medical examiner to take training developed by DSHS and TDEM on mass-fatality incident management, autopsy-referral decisions, identification and documentation practices, and interagency coordination. It would create a licensed emergency-manager credential issued by TDEM (including statutory authority for background checks), establish a statewide…
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