Bill Text: TX HB2020 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of wellness policies and programs by state agencies.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2020 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2020-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of wellness policies and programs by state agencies.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2020 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2020-Comm_Sub.html
By: Crownover, et al. | H.B. No. 2020 | |
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2020By: Deuell | By: Deuell | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; | ||
May 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 14, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; | ||
May 14, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the adoption of wellness policies and programs by state | ||
agencies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 664.053(e), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e) A state agency may: | ||
(1) develop a wellness program designed to increase | ||
work productivity and capacity and reduce health insurance costs; | ||
or | ||
(2) implement a wellness program based on the model | ||
program or components of the model program developed under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 664.061, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 664.061. AGENCY WELLNESS POLICIES. (a) A state agency | ||
may: | ||
(1) allow each employee 30 minutes during normal | ||
working hours for exercise three times each week; | ||
(2) allow all employees to attend on-site wellness | ||
seminars when offered; [ |
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(3) provide eight hours of additional leave time each | ||
year to an employee who: | ||
(A) receives a physical examination; and | ||
(B) completes either an online health risk | ||
assessment tool provided by the board or a similar health risk | ||
assessment conducted in person by a worksite wellness coordinator; | ||
(4) provide financial incentives for participation in | ||
a wellness program developed under Section 664.053(e) after the | ||
agency establishes a written policy with objective criteria for | ||
providing the incentives; | ||
(5) offer on-site clinic or pharmacy services in | ||
accordance with Subtitles B and J, Title 3, Occupations Code, | ||
including the requirements regarding delegation of certain medical | ||
acts under Chapter 157, Occupations Code; and | ||
(6) adopt additional wellness policies, as determined | ||
by the agency. | ||
(b) In addition to the requirements of Section 2254.003, in | ||
awarding a contract for on-site clinic services as provided by | ||
Subsection (a)(5), a state agency may consider whether the on-site | ||
clinic services will be provided by a physician-led organization | ||
that has its principal place of business in this state. | ||
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 September 1, 2013. | ||
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