Bill Text: TX HB2527 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a highly contagious communicable disease health and safety plan prepared by a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to Public Education [HB2527 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2527-Introduced.html
| 87R1790 MEW-D | ||
| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 2527 | |
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| relating to a highly contagious communicable disease health and | ||
| safety plan prepared by a school district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.044 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.044. HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS COMMUNICABLE DISEASE HEALTH | ||
| AND SAFETY PLAN. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Communicable disease" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (2) "Highly contagious communicable disease" means a | ||
| communicable disease that creates a substantial risk of public | ||
| exposure because of the disease's high level of contagion or the | ||
| method by which the disease is transmitted. | ||
| (b) Each school district shall prepare and maintain a health | ||
| and safety plan for preventing the spread of a highly contagious | ||
| communicable disease at school district campuses. The health and | ||
| safety plan must include provisions for, if appropriate to prevent | ||
| the spread of the disease: | ||
| (1) providing hand washing schedules for students and | ||
| school personnel; | ||
| (2) requiring temperature checks for students and | ||
| school personnel; | ||
| (3) requiring classrooms to be arranged to provide for | ||
| physical separation between students' desks based on social | ||
| distancing recommendations by local health officials; | ||
| (4) including sanitation protocols for campus | ||
| facilities; | ||
| (5) maintaining an inventory of personal protection | ||
| equipment and cleaning supplies; | ||
| (6) notifying students, parents, and school personnel | ||
| if a member of the school community receives a positive test result | ||
| for a highly contagious communicable disease; | ||
| (7) including protocols for handling a positive test | ||
| result among members of the school community; and | ||
| (8) including a list of community and school health | ||
| centers and resources available to members of the school community. | ||
| (c) Not later than the beginning of each school year, each | ||
| school district shall: | ||
| (1) review and, if necessary, revise the health and | ||
| safety plan prepared under Subsection (b); and | ||
| (2) submit the district's health and safety plan to the | ||
| agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act but not later than the beginning of the 2021-2022 school | ||
| year, each school district shall prepare a highly contagious | ||
| communicable disease health and safety plan and submit the | ||
| district's plan to the Texas Education Agency as required by | ||
| Section 38.044, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
