Bill Text: TX HB771 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to information maintained in the immunization registry after an individual becomes an adult.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Public Health [HB771 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB771-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 771 |
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relating to information maintained in the immunization registry | ||
after an individual becomes an adult. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 161.007(a-1), (a-2), (b), and (e), | ||
Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The written or electronic consent required by | ||
Subsection (a)(3) for an individual younger than 18 years of age is | ||
required to be obtained only one time. After consent is submitted, | ||
the individual's immunization information may be included in the | ||
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electronically. A parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a | ||
minor may provide the consent by using an electronic signature on | ||
the minor's birth certificate. | ||
(a-2) An individual's legally authorized representative or | ||
the individual, after the individual has attained 18 years of age, | ||
may consent in writing or electronically for the individual's | ||
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electronic consent of the minor's legally authorized | ||
representative as described by Section 161.0001(1-c)(A) must be | ||
submitted to the department before the individual's 18th birthday. | ||
The written or electronic consent of the individual or the | ||
individual's legally authorized representative as described by | ||
Section 161.0001(1-c)(B) or (C) must be submitted to the department | ||
not later than the individual's 26th [ |
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of the representative or individual is valid until the individual | ||
or the individual's legally authorized representative withdraws | ||
consent in writing or electronically. The department may not | ||
include in the registry the immunization information of an | ||
individual who is 26 [ |
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written or electronic consent has been obtained from the individual | ||
or the individual's legally authorized representative as provided | ||
by this subsection. The department shall coordinate with the Texas | ||
Education Agency to distribute materials described in Section | ||
161.0095(a)(2) to students and parents through local school | ||
districts. | ||
(b) Except as provided by Section 161.0071, the | ||
immunization registry must contain information on the immunization | ||
history that is obtained by the department under: | ||
(1) this section of each individual for whom consent | ||
has been obtained in accordance with guidelines adopted under | ||
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(2) Section 161.00705 of persons immunized to prepare | ||
for or in response to a declared disaster, public health emergency, | ||
terrorist attack, hostile military or paramilitary action, or | ||
extraordinary law enforcement emergency; | ||
(3) Section 161.00706 of first responders or their | ||
immediate family members; and | ||
(4) Section 161.00735 of persons evacuated or | ||
relocated to this state because of a disaster. | ||
(e) The department shall provide notice to a health care | ||
provider that submits an immunization history for an individual for | ||
whom consent cannot be verified. The notice shall contain | ||
instructions for obtaining consent in accordance with guidelines | ||
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resubmitting the immunization history to the department. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 161.007(a-3), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
161.007, Health and Safety Code, apply only to immunization | ||
information in the immunization registry of a person who turns 18 | ||
years of age on or after the effective date of this Act. The | ||
immunization information in the immunization registry of a person | ||
who turns 18 years of age before the effective date of this Act is | ||
covered by the law in effect immediately before that date, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |