Bill Text: TX HB5027 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited governmental entity implementation or enforcement of a vaccine mandate, mask requirement, or private business or school closure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HB5027 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5027-Introduced.html
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| By: Toth | H.B. No. 5027 | |
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| relating to prohibited governmental entity implementation or | ||
| enforcement of a vaccine mandate, mask requirement, or private | ||
| business or school closure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 81B to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 81B. PROHIBITED CORONAVIRUS PREVENTATIVE MEASURES | ||
| Sec. 81B.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease and any variants of the disease. | ||
| (2) "Governmental entity" means this state, a local | ||
| government entity as defined by Section 418.004, Government Code, | ||
| or an agency of this state or a local government entity. | ||
| Sec. 81B.002. PROHIBITED FACE-COVERING MANDATE. A | ||
| governmental entity may not implement, order, or otherwise impose a | ||
| mandate requiring a person to wear a face mask or other face | ||
| covering to prevent the spread of COVID-19. | ||
| Sec. 81B.003. PROHIBITED VACCINE MANDATE. A governmental | ||
| entity may not implement, order, or otherwise impose a mandate | ||
| requiring a person to be vaccinated against COVID-19. | ||
| Sec. 81B.004. PROHIBITED CLOSURE MANDATE FOR PRIVATE | ||
| BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS. A governmental entity may not implement, | ||
| order, or otherwise impose a mandate requiring the closure of a | ||
| private business, public school, open-enrollment charter school, | ||
| or private school to prevent the spread of COVID-19. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2023. | ||
