Bill Text: TX HB1222 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the compilation and publication of information on confirmed or probable cases of reportable diseases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to Public Health [HB1222 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1222-Introduced.html
87R5393 JG-D | ||
By: Campos | H.B. No. 1222 |
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relating to the compilation and publication of information on | ||
confirmed or probable cases of reportable diseases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 81.047, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 81.047. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORTS; COMPILATION AND | ||
PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN REPORT INFORMATION. (a) Subject to the | ||
confidentiality requirements of this chapter, the department shall | ||
require epidemiological reports of disease outbreaks and of | ||
individual cases of disease suspected or known to be of importance | ||
to the public health. The department shall evaluate the reports to | ||
determine the trends involved and the nature and magnitude of the | ||
hazards. | ||
(b) The department shall, based on the information included | ||
in the epidemiological reports required by Subsection (a), compile, | ||
aggregate, and publish on the department's Internet website | ||
information on the number of confirmed or probable cases of each | ||
reportable disease included in the reports. The case information | ||
must be: | ||
(1) aggregated based on: | ||
(A) the reportable disease; | ||
(B) the date each case of a reportable disease is | ||
reported to the department; and | ||
(C) the probable source of infection for each | ||
case of a reportable disease; and | ||
(2) updated regularly as determined by the | ||
commissioner. | ||
(c) During a public health disaster declared for a | ||
reportable disease under this chapter, the department shall, based | ||
on the information included in the epidemiological reports required | ||
by Subsection (a), compile, aggregate, and publish on the | ||
department's Internet website information on the number of | ||
confirmed or probable cases of the disease, including the number of | ||
deaths caused by or suspected of being caused by the disease. The | ||
case information must be: | ||
(1) aggregated based on: | ||
(A) the date each case of the disease is reported | ||
to the department; | ||
(B) the probable source of infection for each | ||
case of the disease; and | ||
(C) the date of each death and total number of | ||
deaths caused by or suspected of being caused by the disease; and | ||
(2) updated daily. | ||
(d) In publishing information required under this section, | ||
the department may not disclose a patient's personally identifiable | ||
information or information that is confidential under state or | ||
federal law. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 81.047, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to case information submitted on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |