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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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