Bill Text: TX HB1361 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an immunization rate tracking system for employees and residents of certain long-term care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Human Services [HB1361 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1361-Introduced.html
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| By: Wu | H.B. No. 1361 | |
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| relating to an immunization rate tracking system for employees and | ||
| residents of certain long-term care facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0053 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0053. IMMUNIZATION RATE TRACKING SYSTEM FOR | ||
| LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. (a) In this section, "long-term care | ||
| facility" means a facility licensed or regulated under Chapter 242, | ||
| 247, or 252. | ||
| (b) A long-term care facility shall maintain a system to | ||
| track the immunization rates of the facility's employees and | ||
| residents. The system must include information on: | ||
| (1) the aggregate immunization rates of the facility's | ||
| employees and residents; and | ||
| (2) changes to the aggregate immunization rates | ||
| described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| (c) A long-term care facility on request shall provide the | ||
| immunization rate data described by Subsection (b). The data | ||
| provided by the facility may not in any manner identify an employee | ||
| or resident. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
