(a) The department shall designate and maintain a person responsible for statewide accessibility initiatives.
(b) Pursuant to 1 Texas Administrative Code §206.54, each state agency shall publish a current accessibility policy which includes the standards and specifications of this chapter.
(c) Each state agency's accessibility policy shall require an agency-approved plan by which EIR will be brought into and maintained in compliance with the Technical Accessibility Standards and Specifications of this chapter. The plan will include a process for corrective actions to remediate non-compliant items.
(d) The agency head shall designate an EIR Accessibility Coordinator who shall be organizationally placed to facilitate agency-wide progress in EIR Accessibility compliance and practices in support of their internal accessibility policy. The state agency's designation must contain the individual's name and other information in the format prescribed by the department.
(e) A state agency shall inform the department within 30 days whenever the agency EIR Accessibility Coordinator position is vacant, or a new/replacement EIR Accessibility Coordinator is designated.
(f) An agency shall establish goals for making its EIR accessible, which includes progress measurements towards meeting those goals.

Source Note: The provisions of this §213.21 adopted to be effective September 16, 2008, 33 TexReg 7744; amended to be effective September 18, 2014, 39 TexReg 7565; amended to be effective December 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 7679