Bill Text: TX SB700 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the implementation by public schools of certain communicable disease public health orders issued by a health authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB700 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB700-Introduced.html
| 88R4651 BDP-D | ||
| By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 700 | |
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| relating to the implementation by public schools of certain | ||
| communicable disease public health orders issued by a health | ||
| authority. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.0022 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0022. REQUIRED IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN | ||
| COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS. (a) In this section, | ||
| "communicable disease" and "health authority" have the meanings | ||
| assigned by Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to Subsection | ||
| (c), a school district shall implement or otherwise comply with | ||
| health directives outlined in a public health order issued by a | ||
| health authority with jurisdiction over territory in which the | ||
| district is wholly or partly located regarding evidence-based | ||
| practices to reduce or eliminate the transmission of or infection | ||
| with a communicable disease among district students and staff, | ||
| including directives requiring the students and staff to wear face | ||
| masks or face coverings. | ||
| (c) If two or more health authorities with jurisdiction over | ||
| territory in which a school district is wholly or partly located | ||
| issue public health orders with conflicting health directives, the | ||
| board of trustees of the district may select which health | ||
| authority's public health order the district will implement or | ||
| otherwise comply with. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 38.0022, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a public health order issued by a health | ||
| authority on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
