Bill Text: TX SB79 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a report by a school authority of a communicable disease during a declared state of disaster.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB79 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB79-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 79 | |
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| relating to a report by a school authority of a communicable disease | ||
| during a declared state of disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.0425 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.0425. SCHOOL AUTHORITY REPORT DURING DECLARED | ||
| DISASTER. A school authority shall report to the department and the | ||
| Texas Education Agency if a child attending school or an employee or | ||
| volunteer at the school provides notice to the authority that the | ||
| individual is infected with a communicable disease for which the | ||
| governor has declared a state of disaster under Section 418.014, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 81.0425, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to notice provided to a school | ||
| authority on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
