Bill Text: TX HB47 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to presumptive coverage for school district employees that contract COVID-19.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB47 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB47-Introduced.html
| By: Canales | H.B. No. 47 | |
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| relating to presumptive coverage for school district employees that | ||
| contract COVID-19. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 607.054, Government Code, is amended as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 607.054. TUBERCULOSIS, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, OR OTHER | ||
| RESPIRATORY ILLNESS. | ||
| (a) A firefighter, peace officer, or emergency medical | ||
| technician who suffers from tuberculosis, or any other disease or | ||
| illness of the lungs or respiratory tract that has a statistically | ||
| positive correlation with service as a firefighter, peace officer, | ||
| or emergency medical technician, that results in death or total or | ||
| partial disability is presumed to have contracted the disease or | ||
| illness during the course and scope of employment as a firefighter, | ||
| peace officer, or emergency medical technician. | ||
| (b) An employee of a school district who is diagnosed with | ||
| the virus SARS-CoV-2 or with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by | ||
| a test approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | ||
| that results in death or total or partial disability is presumed to | ||
| have contracted the disease or illness during the course and scope | ||
| of employment as an employee of a school district. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately. | ||
