§ 418.041 Organization
§ 418.042 State Emergency Management Plan
§ 418.0425 State Emergency Management Plan Annex
§ 418.043 Other Powers and Duties
§ 418.0435 Personal Protective Equipment Contracts
§ 418.044 Assistance in Development of Local Plans
§ 418.045 Temporary Personnel
§ 418.046 Assistance to Aviators
§ 418.0461 Assistance to Civil Air Patrol
§ 418.047 Communications
§ 418.048 Monitoring Weather; Disaster Preparedness Education
§ 418.050 Phased Reentry Plan
§ 418.0501 Reentry Credentialing Pilot Program
§ 418.051 Communications Coordination Group
§ 418.052 Use of Funds to Support Certain Persons
§ 418.053 Emergency Services District Program
§ 418.054 Disaster Response Guide
§ 418.0541 Catastrophic Debris Management Plan and Training
§ 418.0542 Catastrophic Debris Management Plan and Training
§ 418.0543 Contracting for Debris Removal
§ 418.0544 Disaster Preparation Contracts
§ 418.0545 Disaster Case Management System
§ 418.0546 Emergency Plan for Specialty Care Populations
§ 418.0547 Access to Local Volunteer Networks; Volunteer Mobile Medical Units
§ 418.0548 Communications Immediately Following a Disaster
§ 418.0549 Hardening of Utility Facilities and Critical Infrastructure
§ 418.055 Information Sharing Work Group
§ 418.0551 Permitting Task Force
§ 418.0552 Business Advisory Council
§ 418.0553 Disaster Recovery Task Force
§ 418.0554 Coordinating 9-1-1 Text Message Capability
§ 418.0555 Social Media Use During and After Disasters
§ 418.056 Disaster Mobile Application
§ 418.057 Disaster Web Portal
§ 418.058 Use of Data Analytics in Disaster Management

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Terms Used In Texas Government Code Chapter 418 > Subchapter C - Texas Division of Emergency Management

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Claimant: means a person, including a decedent's estate, seeking or who has sought recovery of damages in a health care liability claim. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Court: means any federal or state court. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Health care: means any act or treatment performed or furnished, or that should have been performed or furnished, by any health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Health care liability claim: means a cause of action against a health care provider or physician for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of medical care, or health care, or safety or professional or administrative services directly related to health care, which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant, whether the claimant's claim or cause of action sounds in tort or contract. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Health care provider: means any person, partnership, professional association, corporation, facility, or institution duly licensed, certified, registered, or chartered by the State of Texas to provide health care, including:
    (i) a registered nurse;
    (ii) a dentist;
    (iii) a podiatrist;
    (iv) a pharmacist;
    (v) a chiropractor;
    (vi) an optometrist;
    (vii) a health care institution; or
    (viii) a health care collaborative certified under Chapter 848, Insurance Code. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by writing, printing, or other means. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mistrial: An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Pharmacist: means one licensed under Chapter 551, Occupations Code, who, for the purposes of this chapter, performs those activities limited to the dispensing of prescription medicines which result in health care liability claims and does not include any other cause of action that may exist at common law against them, including but not limited to causes of action for the sale of mishandled or defective products. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Physician: means :
    (A) an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state;
    (B) a professional association organized under the Texas Professional Association Act (Article 1528f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) by an individual physician or group of physicians;
    (C) a partnership or limited liability partnership formed by a group of physicians;
    (D) a nonprofit health corporation certified under § 162. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
  • Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005