Bill Text: TX HB1846 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to public comments on federal grants and contracts related to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1846 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1846-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to public comments on federal grants and contracts related to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1846 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1846-Comm_Sub.html
84R23240 SCL-D | |||
By: King of Taylor | H.B. No. 1846 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1846: | |||
By: Rinaldi | C.S.H.B. No. 1846 |
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relating to public comments on federal grants and contracts related | ||
to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 431, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 431.250 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 431.250. PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR FEDERAL GRANTS AND | ||
CONTRACTS. (a) The department shall annually solicit comments | ||
from interested persons regarding the grants and contracts the | ||
department has requested from or entered into with the United | ||
States Food and Drug Administration for implementing the federal | ||
Act and its amendments, including the Food Safety Modernization Act | ||
(21 U.S.C. Section 2201 et seq.). | ||
(b) The department shall solicit comments by posting on the | ||
department's Internet website a detailed description of and | ||
providing notice to interested persons of each grant and contract | ||
described by Subsection (a) requested or entered into during the | ||
previous year. The description and notice must include the | ||
benefits to this state, the department, the regulated community, | ||
and the public. | ||
(c) The department shall respond to questions and comments | ||
about a grant or contract described by Subsection (a) to the best of | ||
the department's knowledge. If an interested person requests that | ||
the department decline to receive future federal funding from the | ||
grant or contract, the department shall consider the request and | ||
determine whether the benefits of the grant or contract outweigh | ||
the person's concerns. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |