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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 9. SAFETY |
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Subtitle B. EMERGENCIES |
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Chapter 771. STATE ADMINISTRATION OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS |
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Subchapter E. EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH RESOURCE CENTERS |
Sec. 771.106. FUNDING OF PROGRAM
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(a) Money in the 9-1-1 services fee fund and other state funds may be appropriated to The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on behalf of the center to fund the program.
(b) The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on behalf of the center and the center are also authorized to seek grant funding for the program.
(c) A political subdivision that participates in the program may pay an appropriate share of the cost of the program.
(d) The provisions in this subchapter that require the center to establish, conduct, and evaluate the program are contingent on the center receiving funding in accordance with this section. If a sufficient number of political subdivisions in a region that could be served by a program offer to pay the center an amount that in the aggregate, together with any other funding received under this section, is sufficient to fund the program for the region, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, on behalf of the center:
(1) shall enter into contracts with the offering political subdivisions under which each will pay an appropriate share of the cost; and
(2) when the amount under the signed contracts, together with any other funding received under this section, is sufficient to fund the program for the region, shall implement the program for the region.