Supplement: TX HB797 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Fiscal Note (Engrossed)
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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_Engrossed_.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_Engrossed_.html
TO: |
Honorable Lois W. Kolkhorst, Chair, House Committee on Health & Human Services |
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.), As Engrossed |
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 within the agency's existing resources.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: b > td > | 529 Hlth & Human Svcs Comm, 537 State Health Services |
LBB Staff: b > td > | JMc, AKI, JLI, RD |