Bill Text: TX HB2447 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the statewide health coordinating council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Referred to Public Health [HB2447 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2447-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 2447 |
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relating to the composition of the statewide health coordinating | ||
council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 104.011(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The statewide health coordinating council is composed | ||
of 17 members determined as follows: | ||
(1) the executive commissioner or a representative | ||
designated by the executive commissioner; | ||
(2) the chair of the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board or a representative designated by the presiding | ||
officer; | ||
(3) the commissioner or a representative designated by | ||
the commissioner; | ||
(4) the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency | ||
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(5) the following members appointed by the governor: | ||
(A) three health care professionals from the | ||
allied health, dental, medical, mental health, and pharmacy | ||
professions, no two of whom may be from the same profession; | ||
(B) one registered nurse; | ||
(C) two representatives of a university or | ||
health-related institution of higher education; | ||
(D) one representative of a junior or community | ||
college with a nursing program; | ||
(E) one hospital administrator; | ||
(F) one managed care administrator; and | ||
(G) four public members. | ||
SECTION 2. On the effective date of this Act, the | ||
commissioner of the Texas Education Agency or a representative | ||
designated by the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency | ||
replaces the commissioner of aging and disability services or the | ||
representative designated by the commissioner of aging and | ||
disability services as a member of the statewide health | ||
coordinating council, in accordance with Section 104.011, Health | ||
and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, and the commissioner of the | ||
Texas Education Agency shall serve the remainder of the unexpired | ||
term. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |