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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Department of Public Safety requires statewide broadband network services for emergency responders and annual legislative reporting
Last action · July 23, 2025: FiledSponsor: Barbara Gervin-Hawkins
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas requires the Department of Public Safety to procure dedicated wireless broadband network services for its first responder employees with statewide availability, including disaster-prone areas. The legislation mandates cancelling service access upon an employee's separation, maintaining a public provider database for non-department first responders, and submitting an annual effectiveness report to legislative leadership by December 1.
Emergency personnel gain guaranteed access to dedicated communications infrastructure during natural disasters, while telecommunications providers and state agencies adapt to new procurement, database-maintenance, and reporting mandates.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Department of Public Safety first responder employees
Employees receive dedicated broadband network services with statewide availability for emergency response operations.
Non-department first responders
First responders outside the department receive assistance from the state in selecting and securing broadband services through a maintained database.
Broadband network service providers
Providers are subject to state procurement selection, database listing requirements, and cancellation notices upon employee separation.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Jul 23, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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