Bill Text: TX HB214 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the women's health advisory committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB214 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB214-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 214 | |
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| relating to the women's health advisory committee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.02221 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.02221. WOMEN'S HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) | ||
| The executive commissioner shall establish a women's health | ||
| advisory committee to provide recommendations to the commission on | ||
| women's health programs, including programs previously | ||
| consolidated by the commission. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall appoint members to the | ||
| advisory committee and ensure that a majority of the members are | ||
| health care providers who: | ||
| (1) are participating in women's health programs of | ||
| various sizes; | ||
| (2) are located in separate geographic areas of this | ||
| state; and | ||
| (3) have experience in operating women's health | ||
| programs. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner may appoint a member not | ||
| described by Subsection (b) to the women's health advisory | ||
| committee who represents the women's health industry and is | ||
| knowledgeable on the best practices for women's health programs. | ||
| (d) Section 2110.008, Government Code, does not apply to the | ||
| advisory committee. | ||
| (e) The executive commissioner shall establish the women's | ||
| health advisory committee not later than December 1, 2023. This | ||
| subsection expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
