Bill Text: TX SB1120 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to health professional continuing education to address communicable and other diseases in border counties.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1120 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1120-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to health professional continuing education to address communicable and other diseases in border counties.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1120 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1120-Introduced.html
86R12195 SRA-D | ||
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1120 |
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relating to health professional continuing education to address | ||
communicable and other diseases in border counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter K to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER K. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION TO ADDRESS | ||
COMMUNICABLE AND OTHER DISEASES IN BORDER COUNTIES | ||
Sec. 81.451. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Community health worker" has the meaning assigned | ||
by Section 48.001. | ||
(2) "Health professional" means an individual whose: | ||
(A) vocation or profession is directly or | ||
indirectly related to the maintenance of the health of another | ||
individual; and | ||
(B) duties require a specified amount of formal | ||
education and may require a special examination, certificate or | ||
license, or membership in a regional or national association. | ||
(3) "HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus. | ||
Sec. 81.452. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter | ||
applies only to a county adjacent to the international border with | ||
Mexico. | ||
Sec. 81.453. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION. (a) | ||
To the extent funds are available, the department, in collaboration | ||
with health authorities, local health departments, and public | ||
health districts, shall provide to community health workers, health | ||
professionals, and applicable employees of a local health | ||
department or public health district continuing education designed | ||
to reduce the incidence of communicable and other diseases in | ||
counties described by Section 81.452. | ||
(b) The continuing education described by Subsection (a) | ||
may address: | ||
(1) the diagnosis and treatment of communicable and | ||
other diseases, including: | ||
(A) tuberculosis, tuberculosis meningitis, | ||
multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and tuberculosis and HIV | ||
coinfections; | ||
(B) sexually transmitted diseases and HIV; and | ||
(C) liver diseases; | ||
(2) methods for increasing pediatric and adult | ||
immunization rates; | ||
(3) strategies for improving health care system | ||
operations related to public health, including identifying, | ||
monitoring, tracking, and responding to communicable and other | ||
diseases occurring in the counties described by Section 81.452; and | ||
(4) any other matter that the department determines | ||
will assist health professionals, local health departments, and | ||
public health districts with addressing public health challenges | ||
existing in those counties. | ||
Sec. 81.454. FUNDING. (a) The department may solicit or | ||
accept gifts, grants, or donations to fund health professional | ||
continuing education under this subchapter. | ||
(b) The department shall collaborate with state and federal | ||
agencies, nonprofit organizations, public and private hospitals, | ||
institutions of higher education, and the private sector to | ||
identify, apply for, and solicit sources of funding for health | ||
professional continuing education under this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |