Bill Text: TX HB2148 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to notification by the Department of State Health Services and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of incidents of Naegleria fowleri.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2148 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2148-Comm_Sub.html
By: Stephenson, Ramos, Reynolds | H.B. No. 2148 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021; | ||
May 12, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported adversely, | ||
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2148 | By: Kolkhorst |
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relating to notification by the Department of State Health Services | ||
and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of incidents of | ||
Naegleria fowleri. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 341, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 341.0646 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 341.0646. NOTIFICATION OF INCIDENTS OF NAEGLERIA | ||
FOWLERI. As soon as possible after the department detects or | ||
becomes aware of human infection, including primary amebic | ||
meningoencephalitis, caused by the presence of the Naegleria | ||
fowleri amoeba in a swimming pool, a freshwater lake used for | ||
swimming, a public drinking water source, or a park with splashpads | ||
or other outdoor features using freshwater for amusement purposes, | ||
the department shall notify the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
Quality. The commission shall notify the appropriate public water | ||
systems as soon as possible after receiving notice under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
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