HB4341

HB4341 directs the Texas Division of Emergency Management, or TDEM, to establish a grant program for emergency-response mapping at two specified types of critical infrastructure: public or private airports shown on a current FAA aeronautical chart, and military installations owned or operated “by or for this state or another governmental entity.” A facility must comply with the new requirements only if it receives a grant under the program. This is not an unfunded mapping mandate for every facility classified as critical infrastructure.

A participating facility must provide TDEM and appropriate public-safety agencies an accurate map and an opportunity to tour the facility with it to verify accuracy. Maps must include floor plans over current verified aerial imagery; building, room, named-hallway and external-door or stairwell labels; and locations of known hazards, critical utilities, key boxes, automated external defibrillators and trauma kits.

The maps must work with the relevant emergency-management, 9-1-1 and public-safety software without an access fee or a required additional software purchase. They must support printing, electronic sharing or integration into an interactive application and be easy to modify or update. A mapping provider receiving grant money can charge only the initial map-production cost and must supply the map to the facility, TDEM and appropriate agencies.

The facility may provide the map only to TDEM and appropriate public-safety agencies for the specified mapping and emergency-response purposes, and may not make it available to the public. These detailed response maps are not a new public tourist or facility directory.

The act establishes a dedicated general-revenue account for appropriations, dedicated revenues, earnings, gifts and grants, with money appropriable only to TDEM for program administration and awards. Grants require contracts giving TDEM enough control to secure the public purpose and a state benefit. TDEM must adopt eligibility and application rules and establish the program as soon as practicable after September 1, 2025, the effective date. The act itself does not appropriate a dollar amount.