Bill Text: TX SB984 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to public health disaster and public health emergency preparedness and response, including the operation of the Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB984 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB984-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 984 |
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relating to public health disaster and public health emergency | ||
preparedness and response, including the operation of the Task | ||
Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 81.027 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 81.027. TRAUMA SERVICE AREA REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL | ||
DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING. (a) Each trauma service area | ||
regional advisory council shall collect from each hospital located | ||
in the regional advisory council's trauma service area the | ||
de-identified health care data, including demographic data, | ||
necessary for this state and the area to effectively plan for and | ||
respond to public health disasters and communicable or infectious | ||
disease emergencies in this state. The executive commissioner by | ||
rule shall prescribe the data each council must collect under this | ||
subsection. | ||
(b) A trauma service area regional advisory council shall: | ||
(1) provide the data collected under Subsection (a) to | ||
the department; and | ||
(2) make the data publicly available by: | ||
(A) posting the data on the regional advisory | ||
council's Internet website; or | ||
(B) if the regional advisory council does not | ||
maintain an Internet website, providing the data in writing on | ||
request. | ||
(c) Information collected or maintained under this section | ||
that identifies a patient is confidential and exempt from | ||
disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 81.404(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The governor may appoint members of the task force as | ||
necessary, including members from relevant state agencies, members | ||
with expertise in infectious diseases and other issues involved in | ||
the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, and members | ||
from institutions of higher education in this state. The governor | ||
shall appoint to the task force: | ||
(1) at least one member who is a county judge of a | ||
county with a population of less than 100,000; | ||
(2) at least one member who is a county judge of a | ||
county with a population of 100,000 or more; | ||
(3) at least one member who is a representative of a | ||
local health authority serving a rural area; | ||
(4) at least one member who is a representative of a | ||
local health authority serving an urban area; | ||
(5) at least one member who is a licensed nurse; [ |
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(6) at least one member who is emergency medical | ||
services personnel, as defined by Section 773.003; and | ||
(7) at least one member who is an epidemiologist. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 81.406(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The task force shall meet: | ||
(1) at least once each year at a location determined by | ||
the task force director; and | ||
(2) at other times and locations as determined by the | ||
task force director [ |
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SECTION 4. Not later than January 1, 2022, the governor | ||
shall appoint the member of the Task Force on Infectious Disease | ||
Preparedness and Response as required by Section 81.404(a)(7), | ||
Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. The Department of State Health Services or a | ||
trauma service area regional advisory council is required to | ||
implement Section 81.027, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
Act, only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for | ||
that purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money | ||
specifically for that purpose, the department or a trauma service | ||
area regional advisory council may, but is not required to, | ||
implement Section 81.027 using other appropriations available for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 984 passed the Senate on | ||
April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment 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. 984 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, | ||
Nays 3, one present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |