Bill Text: TX HB1420 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the composition and duties of the Public Health Funding and Policy Committee.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-22 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1420 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1420-Comm_Sub.html
86R24849 SRA-D | |||
By: Dominguez, Guerra, Blanco, Lucio III, | H.B. No. 1420 | ||
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Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1420: | |||
By: Guerra | C.S.H.B. No. 1420 |
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relating to the composition and duties of the Public Health Funding | ||
and Policy Committee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 117.052, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 117.052. APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS. (a) The commissioner | ||
shall appoint 10 [ |
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(1) two regional health directors, each of whom is | ||
serving as a health authority in a municipality or county; | ||
(2) one local health entity representative of a | ||
municipality or county with a population of 50,000 or less; | ||
(3) one local health entity representative from a | ||
municipality or county with a population greater than 50,000 but | ||
less than 250,000; | ||
(4) one local health entity representative from a | ||
municipality or county with a population of at least 250,000; | ||
(5) two local health entity representatives, each of | ||
whom serves in a municipality or county as the health authority; | ||
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(6) two representatives of schools of public health at | ||
institutions of higher education in this state; and | ||
(7) one representative from the Task Force of Border | ||
Health Officials established under Chapter 120. | ||
(a-1) The committee members appointed under Subsection | ||
(a)(1) are ex officio nonvoting members. | ||
(b) In making appointments under Subsections (a)(2), (3), | ||
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members from nominations submitted by the entity, institution, or | ||
task force of which the nominated member is an employee or member | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 117.053(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Committee members serve staggered six-year terms, with | ||
the terms of three or four members expiring on February 1 of each | ||
odd-numbered year. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 117.055, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 117.055. PRESIDING OFFICER. The presiding officer is | ||
elected by a majority vote of all the committee members and serves | ||
for a term of two years. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 117.056, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The committee shall meet with the Task Force of Border | ||
Health Officials established under Chapter 120 at least annually | ||
and at the call of the presiding officers of the committee and the | ||
task force. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 117.101, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 117.101. GENERAL DUTIES OF COMMITTEE. (a) The | ||
committee shall: | ||
(1) summarize the scope and type of [ |
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public health services provided by [ |
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a focus on differences in the availability of services in urban, | ||
rural, and border areas of this state [ |
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(2) monitor the availability of [ |
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health services in this state, [ |
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services and funding for those services, and develop | ||
recommendations to address the disparity [ |
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(3) recommend [ |
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priorities for this state and coordinate efforts to address the | ||
priorities with the department; and | ||
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recommendations to the department regarding: | ||
(A) the use and allocation of funds available | ||
exclusively to local health entities to perform core public health | ||
functions; | ||
(B) ways to improve the overall public health of | ||
citizens in this state; | ||
(C) methods for transitioning from a contractual | ||
relationship between the department and the local health entities | ||
to a cooperative-agreement relationship between the department and | ||
the local health entities; and | ||
(D) methods for fostering a continuous | ||
collaborative relationship between the department and the local | ||
health entities. | ||
(b) Recommendations made under Subsection (a)(4)(A) | ||
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(1) prevailing epidemiological evidence, variations | ||
in geographic and population needs, best practices, and | ||
evidence-based interventions related to the populations to be | ||
served; | ||
(2) state and federal law; and | ||
(3) federal funding requirements. | ||
SECTION 6. The heading to Section 117.151, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 117.151. BIENNIAL [ |
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SECTION 7. Section 117.151(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Not [ |
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each even-numbered year the department shall file a biennial [ |
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speaker of the house of representatives detailing: | ||
(1) the implementation of the committee's | ||
recommendations described in Section 117.101(a)(4) | ||
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(2) an explanation of the department's reasons for not | ||
implementing a recommendation. | ||
SECTION 8. Section 120.054, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The task force shall meet with the Public Health | ||
Funding and Policy Committee established under Chapter 117 at least | ||
annually and at the call of the presiding officers of the task force | ||
and the committee. | ||
SECTION 9. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the commissioner of the Department of State Health | ||
Services shall make the appointment required by Section | ||
117.052(a)(7), Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 10. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |