Bill Text: TX HB1044 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to mandatory spinal screenings for children in certain grades attending public or private schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-06 - Referred to Public Education [HB1044 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1044-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | H.B. No. 1044 | |
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| relating to mandatory spinal screenings for children in certain | ||
| grades attending public or private schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.001(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner, in cooperation with the | ||
| Texas Education Agency, shall adopt rules for the mandatory spinal | ||
| screening of female children in grades 5 and 7 and male children in | ||
| grade 8 [ |
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| department shall coordinate the spinal screening program with any | ||
| other screening program conducted by the department on those | ||
| children. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The executive commissioner of the Health | ||
| and Human Services Commission, in cooperation with the Texas | ||
| Education Agency, shall adopt the rules required by Section | ||
| 37.001(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, as soon | ||
| as practicable after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) Section 37.001(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
