Bill Text: TX HB14 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority to suspend entry into this state of certain persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-30 - Filed [HB14 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB14-Introduced.html
| By: Harrison | H.B. No. 14 | |
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| relating to the authority to suspend entry into this state of | ||
| certain persons. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Texas Title 42 | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subtitle D, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 81B to read as follows: | ||
| Chapter 81B. Suspension of entry of persons from designated places | ||
| to prevent spread of communicable diseases | ||
| Sec. 81B.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease. | ||
| (2) "Federally declared public health emergency" | ||
| means: | ||
| (A) a public health emergency declared by the | ||
| United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under 42 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 247d; or | ||
| (B) an emergency or disaster declared, including | ||
| under a renewal of the declaration, by the president of the United | ||
| States in relation to a public health emergency described by | ||
| Paragraph (A) under: | ||
| (i) the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. | ||
| Section 1601 et seq.); or | ||
| (ii) the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief | ||
| and Emergency Assistant Act (42 U.S.C. Section 5121 et seq.). | ||
| (3) "Port of entry" means a port of entry in the United | ||
| States, as defined by part 101 of the customs regulations (19 CFR | ||
| part 101). | ||
| (4) "Person" means any individual other than (i) one | ||
| described in the first sentence of section 1 of the Fourteenth | ||
| Amendment to the United States Constitution or (ii) one described | ||
| in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(20). | ||
| Sec. 81B.002. SUSPENSION OF ENTRY. (a) During any of the | ||
| following, all persons entering Texas by land from another country | ||
| must pass through a legal port of entry for appropriate medical | ||
| review: | ||
| (1) the pendency of any federally declared public | ||
| health emergency for COVID-19, | ||
| (2) at any time which the federal government has in | ||
| place any vaccination requirements for any person lawfully | ||
| residing in the United States, including but not limited to | ||
| government contractors or healthcare workers, for the purposes of | ||
| preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, | ||
| (3) at any time which the U.S. Department of State has | ||
| travel warnings for health for any country from which citizens have | ||
| illegally entered the United States during the most recent year for | ||
| which there is available data; or | ||
| (4) the period the COVID-19 vaccine is listed on the | ||
| recommended child and adolescent immunization schedule published | ||
| by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | ||
| (b) Any person who enters the State of Texas from a foreign | ||
| country other than in accordance with subsection (a) of this | ||
| section, shall be removed to the country from which they entered the | ||
| United States, or their country of origin, or another location as | ||
| practicable, as rapidly as possible, with as little time spent in | ||
| congregate settings as practicable under the circumstances. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
