Title: Emergency Management

Summary: Authorizing the state and its political subdivisions to use technology for specified purposes relating to emergency management; specifying that such technology may be provided by a private entity, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to emergency management; creating s. 252.64, F.S.; authorizing the state and its political subdivisions to use technology for specified purposes relating to emergency management; specifying that such technology may be provided by a private entity; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 252.64, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 252.64  Use of technology for emergency management purposes.  The state, or any political subdivision thereof, may use technology,including, but not limited to, technology provided through mobile phones, to provide assistance for emergency management purposes and to provide information and deliver services to victims of, and to those affected by, a disaster. Such technology may be provided by a private entity through a gift, a grant, a loan,or by other agreement as authorized in s. 252.37(4)(b). Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.