Bill Text: TX SB1122 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a sanitarian recruitment and retention program in border counties for public health purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1122 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1122-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a sanitarian recruitment and retention program in border counties for public health purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1122 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1122-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1122 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2019; March 7, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; April 24, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
April 24, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1122 | By: Perry |
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relating to the establishment of a sanitarian recruitment and | ||
retention program in border counties for public health purposes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 121, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 121.0055 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 121.0055. SANITARIAN RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION | ||
PROGRAM IN BORDER COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
local health unit, local health department, or public health | ||
district that is: | ||
(1) located in a county along the international border | ||
with Mexico; and | ||
(2) affiliated with the department under Section | ||
121.005. | ||
(b) To the extent funds are available, the department shall | ||
develop a program under which the department: | ||
(1) provides grants to local health units, local | ||
health departments, and public health districts to improve | ||
recruitment and retention of sanitarians registered under Chapter | ||
1953, Occupations Code; and | ||
(2) expands opportunities for training and | ||
registration of sanitarians to improve disease response and prevent | ||
foodborne, waterborne, vector-borne, and zoonotic diseases. | ||
(c) The department shall administer the grant program | ||
described by Subsection (b) in coordination with local health | ||
units, local health departments, public health districts, and | ||
appropriate state agencies, federal agencies, nonprofit | ||
organizations, public and private hospitals, institutions of | ||
higher education, and other private entities. | ||
(d) The department may provide a grant under Subsection (b) | ||
only in accordance with a contract between the department and the | ||
recipient. The contract must include provisions under which the | ||
department is granted sufficient control to ensure the public | ||
purpose of improved public health is accomplished and the state | ||
receives the return benefit. | ||
(e) The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and | ||
donations to operate the program established under this section. | ||
The department shall coordinate with appropriate state agencies, | ||
federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, public and private | ||
hospitals, institutions of higher education, and other private | ||
entities in identifying and soliciting funding to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. The Department of State Health Services is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the department may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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