SB767

SB767 requires the Texas Forest Service to create and maintain a statewide database of firefighting equipment available for wildfire response. The database must show the inventory in real time, be searchable by location and equipment type, and include each department’s available equipment types and contact information. All Texas fire departments must be able to access it and update their own equipment information. Signed May 19, 2025, it took effect September 1, 2025. Final law; History.

“Fire department” includes volunteer departments and departments of municipalities, counties, special districts or authorities that provide firefighting services. The Forest Service must assist a department that supplies information with updates annually or as soon as practicable after an availability change, and send an electronic reminder at least once each calendar year. The law requires department access; it does not itself require an unrestricted public equipment map. New Education Code 88.1255.

This is an information and coordination requirement, not an appropriation to purchase trucks or an order transferring ownership or control of local equipment. “Real time” describes what the law requires of the database; the act alone does not prove that every department has supplied current data or that equipment will be available at a particular emergency. Database requirements and limits.