Bill Text: TX HB3722 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to training materials for contact tracers and case investigators for public health disasters and other public health emergencies.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-11 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB3722 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3722-Comm_Sub.html
| 87R11538 SCL-D | ||
| By: Zwiener, Guillen | H.B. No. 3722 | |
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| relating to training materials for contact tracers and case | ||
| investigators for public health disasters and other public health | ||
| emergencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.069 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.069. CONTACT TRACER AND CASE INVESTIGATOR TRAINING | ||
| MATERIALS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Contact tracing" means identifying individuals | ||
| who may have been exposed to an infected individual for the purpose | ||
| of containing the spread of a communicable disease by notifying | ||
| those individuals of the exposure and need for testing and | ||
| self-quarantine. | ||
| (2) "Infected individual" means an individual known or | ||
| reasonably suspected to be infected with a communicable disease. | ||
| (b) The department shall develop training materials for use | ||
| by health care providers in conducting contact tracing and case | ||
| investigation during a public health disaster or other public | ||
| health emergency related to a communicable disease. The department | ||
| shall post the training materials on the department's Internet | ||
| website. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable, the Department of State | ||
| Health Services shall develop the training materials required by | ||
| Section 81.069, Health and Safety 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. | ||
