Bill Text: TX SB2295 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of educational materials regarding disease prevention during a disaster.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2295 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2295-Introduced.html
86R12729 AAF-F | ||
By: Powell | S.B. No. 2295 |
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relating to the provision of educational materials regarding | ||
disease prevention during a disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 418.1861 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.1861. DISEASE PREVENTION INFORMATION IN | ||
DISASTERS. (a) In this section, "department" means the Department | ||
of State Health Services. | ||
(b) The department shall develop and implement a disease | ||
prevention information system for dissemination of immunization | ||
information during a disaster. | ||
(c) During a declared state of disaster or local state of | ||
disaster, the department shall ensure that educational materials | ||
regarding immunizations are available to local health authorities | ||
in this state for distribution to the following: | ||
(1) schools; | ||
(2) child-care facilities as defined by Section | ||
42.002, Human Resources Code; and | ||
(3) community centers offering youth services and | ||
programs. | ||
(d) The educational materials under Subsection (c) must | ||
include: | ||
(1) the most recent immunization schedules by age as | ||
recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and | ||
Prevention; and | ||
(2) locations, if any, of local providers offering | ||
immunizations. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable, but not later than August | ||
31, 2020, the Department of State Health Services shall implement | ||
the disease prevention information system as required by Section | ||
418.1861, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |