Supplement: TX HB797 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Fiscal Note (House Committee Report)
For additional supplements on Texas HB797 please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.
Status: 2021-05-18 - Effective immediately [HB797 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB797-Fiscal_Note_House_Committee_Report_.html
Bill Title: Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.
Status: 2021-05-18 - Effective immediately [HB797 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB797-Fiscal_Note_House_Committee_Report_.html
| TO: |
Honorable Stephanie Klick, Chair, House Committee on Public Health |
| FROM: |
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
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| IN RE: |
HB797 by Howard (Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would allow home and community support services agencies and certain employees of those agencies to purchase, store, or transport any FDA-approved vaccine created to treat or mitigate the spread of a communicable disease for the purpose of administering the vaccine to agency employees, patients, or patient family members under a physician's standing orders.
The Health and Human Services Commission indicates that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed with the agency's existing resources.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
| Source Agencies: | 529 Hlth & Human Svcs Comm, 537 State Health Services |
| LBB Staff: | JMc, AKi, JLi, RD |
