Bill Text: TX SB464 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to reports on deaths from reportable and other communicable diseases to county health authorities and health departments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB464 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB464-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 464 |
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relating to reports on deaths from reportable and other | ||
communicable diseases to county health authorities and health | ||
departments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 81.045, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) If the department provides to a health authority, who | ||
serves in that office part-time as described by Section 121.0245, | ||
information on a death from a reportable or other communicable | ||
disease reported to the department under this section, the | ||
department shall also provide the information to the director of | ||
the local health department for the county served by the health | ||
authority. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 121, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 121.0245 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 121.0245. DUTIES OF PART-TIME HEALTH AUTHORITY. (a) | ||
If a physician appointed to serve as health authority for a county | ||
serves in that office part-time, the physician may: | ||
(1) coordinate with the director of the local health | ||
department for the county in the performance of the duties imposed | ||
by Section 121.024(c)(3); and | ||
(2) notify the department that the physician serves | ||
part-time in the office of health authority for the county. | ||
(b) If the department provides information to a physician | ||
who serves part-time as health authority for a county, the | ||
department shall also provide the information to the director of | ||
the local health department for the county. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 464 passed the Senate on | ||
April 7, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 464 passed the House on | ||
May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 29, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |