Bill Text: TX HB3739 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to outreach campaigns conducted by the Department of State Health Services during certain public health disasters.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Public Health [HB3739 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3739-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 3739 | |
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| relating to outreach campaigns conducted by the Department of State | ||
| Health Services during certain public health disasters. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.025. OUTREACH CAMPAIGN DURING CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH | ||
| DISASTERS. (a) In this section, "pandemic disease" means a | ||
| communicable disease that spreads to a significant portion of the | ||
| population of a country, multiple countries, or the world and that | ||
| poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human | ||
| fatalities, illnesses, or permanent long-term disabilities. | ||
| (b) During a declared public health disaster for a pandemic | ||
| disease, the department shall conduct an outreach campaign to | ||
| disseminate information on: | ||
| (1) the availability of viral testing, treatment, and | ||
| vaccines to individuals who are uninsured; and | ||
| (2) the accessibility of the testing, treatment, and | ||
| vaccines to individuals regardless of their immigration status. | ||
| (c) The department shall make the information described by | ||
| Subsection (b) available on the department's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
