Bill Text: TX HB123 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an adult diabetes education program in certain county hospital systems and hospital districts.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB123 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB123-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 123 | ||
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| relating to an adult diabetes education program in certain county | ||
| hospital systems and hospital districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.077 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1001.077. ADULT DIABETES EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) In | ||
| counties with populations of more than 100,000, the department may | ||
| assist hospital districts and county hospital systems in providing | ||
| an adult diabetes education program. The program must be based on a | ||
| curriculum developed by the Texas Diabetes Council. | ||
| (b) A hospital district or county hospital system that | ||
| participates in the program shall: | ||
| (1) make the adult diabetes education program | ||
| available in English and Spanish using the curriculum developed by | ||
| the Texas Diabetes Council; and | ||
| (2) make the education program available in the | ||
| county, including at each rural health clinic the district or | ||
| system may have. | ||
| (c) The Texas Diabetes Council shall develop for the adult | ||
| diabetes education program a curriculum emphasizing life choices | ||
| that enable a diabetic patient to control the disease and improve | ||
| the patient's standard of living. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than June 1, 2012, the Texas Diabetes | ||
| Council shall develop the curriculum required by Section 1001.077, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 123 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 123 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
