Training on Incident Response and Command

Law Enforcement Officers · Training Programs, Schools, and Policies

The Legislature has enacted more than one Occupations Code section numbered 1701.273. This is version 1, in Subchapter F.

For text of section as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 840 (S.B. 1563), Sec. 1, see other Sec. 1701.273.

(a) The commission shall require a peace officer to complete the following emergency response management training courses, or a substantially similar successor course as determined by the commission, in collaboration with the Texas Division of Emergency Management:

(1) Introduction to the Incident Command System; and

(2) National Incident Management System, An Introduction.

(b) The commission shall require an officer to complete the training courses described by Subsection (a) unless the officer has completed the training under Section 1701.253(u).

Official text of the Texas Occupations Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 361 (H.B. 33), Sec. 18, eff. September 1, 2025.

Text of section as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 840 (S.B. 1563), Sec. 1

This section refers to

§ 1701.253

Sections that refer to this one

§ 1701.253 § 1701.310