Bill Text: TX HB1161 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a report on state actions to prevent chemical dependency facilities from engaging in certain prohibited solicitation practices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to Public Health [HB1161 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1161-Introduced.html
87R2770 JG-F | ||
By: Murr | H.B. No. 1161 |
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relating to a report on state actions to prevent chemical | ||
dependency facilities from engaging in certain prohibited | ||
solicitation practices. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 164, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 164.015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 164.015. ANNUAL REPORT ON STATE ACTIONS TO PREVENT | ||
CERTAIN PROHIBITED SOLICITATION PRACTICES. (a) Not later than | ||
November 1 of each year, the office of the attorney general, in | ||
conjunction with the commission, shall prepare a written report on | ||
actions brought on behalf of this state during the preceding state | ||
fiscal year, including actions to assess a civil or an | ||
administrative penalty or to impose an injunction, against a | ||
chemical dependency facility for a violation of: | ||
(1) this chapter related to prohibited solicitation | ||
practices; or | ||
(2) Chapter 102, Occupations Code, related to | ||
prohibited solicitation practices. | ||
(b) The office of the attorney general shall: | ||
(1) submit the report prepared under Subsection (a) to | ||
the executive commissioner and the members of each standing | ||
committee of the legislature with jurisdiction over public health; | ||
and | ||
(2) post the report on the attorney general's Internet | ||
website. | ||
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 164.015, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act, the office of the attorney | ||
general is not required to submit the first report under that | ||
section until November 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |