Bill Text: TX SB437 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a personal protective equipment reserve advisory committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective immediately [SB437 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB437-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 437 |
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relating to the establishment of a personal protective equipment | ||
reserve advisory committee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 81.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 81.016. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT RESERVE | ||
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) In this section, "division" means the | ||
Texas Division of Emergency Management. | ||
(b) The division shall establish the Personal Protective | ||
Equipment Reserve Advisory Committee composed of the following | ||
members appointed by the division: | ||
(1) one representative of an association representing | ||
different types of hospitals and health systems; | ||
(2) one representative of an association representing | ||
nursing facilities; | ||
(3) one representative of an association representing | ||
primary care clinics; | ||
(4) one representative of an association representing | ||
nurses; | ||
(5) one representative of an association representing | ||
home hospice care providers; | ||
(6) one representative of a statewide association | ||
representing physicians; | ||
(7) two representatives of labor organizations that | ||
represent essential personnel; | ||
(8) one representative from the personal protective | ||
equipment manufacturing industry; | ||
(9) one consumer representative; | ||
(10) one representative from an association | ||
representing counties; | ||
(11) one representative of a regional advisory council | ||
from one of this state's trauma service areas; | ||
(12) one representative from the department; | ||
(13) one representative from the division; and | ||
(14) one representative from the commission. | ||
(c) The advisory committee shall make recommendations to | ||
the division as necessary on: | ||
(1) the procurements needed for a statewide personal | ||
protective equipment reserve; | ||
(2) the storage of the equipment in the reserve; and | ||
(3) the distribution of the equipment to health care | ||
workers and essential personnel. | ||
(d) This section expires and the advisory committee is | ||
abolished September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Texas Division of Emergency Management shall | ||
appoint members to the Personal Protective Equipment Reserve | ||
Advisory Committee established under Section 81.016, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. The Texas Division of Emergency Management is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose or if | ||
federal money is provided to this state and by law made available to | ||
the division for the purposes of this Act. If the legislature does | ||
not appropriate money specifically for that purpose and federal | ||
money is not available for that purpose, the division may, but is | ||
not required to, implement a provision of this Act using other | ||
appropriations that are available for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the Senate on | ||
April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the House, with | ||
amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 106, | ||
Nays 41, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |