Bill Text: TX SB2151 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the Texas Diabetes Council and the state plan for diabetes and obesity treatment and education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2151 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2151-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Texas Diabetes Council and the state plan for diabetes and obesity treatment and education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2151 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2151-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 2151 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; | ||
April 1, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 1, 2019, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2151 | By: Seliger |
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relating to the Texas Diabetes Council and the state plan for | ||
diabetes and obesity treatment and education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 103.001(2), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Person with diabetes" means a person diagnosed by | ||
a physician in accordance with nationally recognized standards as | ||
having diabetes. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 103.002(a), (b), and (c), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Texas Diabetes Council is composed of 11 citizen | ||
members appointed from the public and one representative each from | ||
the department, the commission, the Employees Retirement System of | ||
Texas, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission vocational rehabilitation services division | ||
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(b) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, | ||
shall appoint the following citizen members: | ||
(1) a licensed physician with a specialization in | ||
treating diabetes; | ||
(2) a registered nurse with a specialization in | ||
diabetes education and training; | ||
(3) a registered and licensed dietitian with a | ||
specialization in the diabetes education field; | ||
(4) a person with experience and training in public | ||
health policy; | ||
(5) three consumer members, with special | ||
consideration given to persons active in the Texas affiliates of | ||
the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the American | ||
Association of Diabetes Educators, or the American Diabetes | ||
Association; and | ||
(6) four members from the general public with | ||
expertise or demonstrated commitment to diabetes issues. | ||
(c) The commissioner, executive commissioner, executive | ||
director of the Employees Retirement System of Texas, executive | ||
director of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and the | ||
director of the Texas Workforce Commission vocational | ||
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representative to the council. Agency representatives shall be | ||
nonvoting members of the council. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 103.010, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 103.010. STAFF AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. (a) Each | ||
agency represented on the council shall provide the council with | ||
periodic staff support of specialists as needed and may provide | ||
staff support to an advisory committee. | ||
(b) The department shall provide administrative support to | ||
the council by providing research services and preparing any | ||
reports required under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 103.011, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 103.011. ADVISORY COMMITTEES; WORK GROUPS. (a) The | ||
council may establish advisory committees or work groups that the | ||
council considers necessary and may determine the appropriate | ||
membership for each committee or group. | ||
(b) The council shall specify the purpose and duties of each | ||
advisory committee or work group and shall specify any product the | ||
committee is required to develop. | ||
(c) Members of an advisory committee or work group serve at | ||
the will of the council. The council may dissolve an advisory | ||
committee or work group when necessary. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 103.013, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The state plan may include provisions to address | ||
obesity treatment, education, and training related to: | ||
(1) obesity-dependent diabetes; and | ||
(2) the health impacts of obesity on a person with | ||
diabetes. | ||
SECTION 6. Sections 103.014(a) and (c), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The council shall address contemporary issues affecting | ||
health promotion services in the state, including: | ||
(1) professional and patient education; | ||
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self-management education strategies; | ||
(3) evidence-based strategies to achieve the council's | ||
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(4) state expenditures for the prevention, detection, | ||
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benefits of prevention, detection, management, and treatment of | ||
diabetes, including obesity-dependent diabetes. | ||
(c) The council may establish priorities and make | ||
recommendations for program expenditures that align with the | ||
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SECTION 7. Sections 103.017(a) and (c), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department, commission, and Texas Workforce | ||
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council to jointly develop, produce, and implement a general public | ||
awareness strategy focusing on diabetes, its complications, and | ||
techniques for achieving good management. Each agency shall pay | ||
for the costs of producing and disseminating information on | ||
diabetes to clients served by that agency. | ||
(c) The department, commission, and Texas Workforce | ||
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implement a statewide plan for conducting regional training | ||
sessions for public and private service providers, including | ||
institutional health care providers, who have routine contact with | ||
persons with diabetes. | ||
SECTION 8. Section 103.0175, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 103.0175. MATERIALS FOR SCHOOL-BASED AND | ||
SCHOOL-LINKED CLINICS. The council, in consultation with the | ||
department and the Texas Education Agency, shall develop and make | ||
available materials that provide information about diabetes to be | ||
distributed to students and the parents of students by health | ||
clinics at public primary or secondary schools. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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