Sec. 421.096.  INTEROPERABILITY OF RADIO SYSTEMS.  The office of the governor shall:
(1)  develop and administer a strategic plan to design and implement a statewide integrated public safety radio communications system that promotes interoperability within and between local, state, and federal agencies and first responders;
(2)  develop and administer a plan in accordance with Subdivision (1) to purchase infrastructure equipment for state and local agencies and first responders;
(3)  advise representatives of entities in this state that are involved in homeland security activities with respect to interoperability; and
(4)  use appropriated money, including money from relevant federal homeland security grants, for the purposes of designing, implementing, and maintaining a statewide integrated public safety radio communications system.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1337 (S.B. 9), Sec. 14, eff. June 18, 2005.