Bill Text: TX SB829 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to disease prevention and preparedness information for emergency medical services personnel on certification or recertification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB829 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB829-Introduced.html
86R7978 EAS-F | ||
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 829 |
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relating to disease prevention and preparedness information for | ||
emergency medical services personnel on certification or | ||
recertification. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.0551 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.0551. DISEASE PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS | ||
INFORMATION ON CERTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | ||
PERSONNEL. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Applicant" means an individual who files an | ||
application for certification or recertification as emergency | ||
medical services personnel under Section 773.055. | ||
(2) "Immunization registry" means the immunization | ||
registry established under Section 161.007. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a system | ||
under which the Health and Human Services Commission provides an | ||
applicant immunization information. The system must require the | ||
commission to provide: | ||
(1) if the applicant's immunization history is | ||
included in the immunization registry, written notice of the | ||
applicant's immunization history, using information from the | ||
immunization registry; or | ||
(2) if the applicant's immunization history is not | ||
included in the immunization registry, the following information: | ||
(A) details about the program developed under | ||
Section 161.00707; and | ||
(B) the specific risks to emergency medical | ||
services personnel when responding rapidly to an emergency of | ||
exposure to and infection by a potentially serious or deadly | ||
communicable disease that an immunization may prevent. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
Section 773.0551, Health and Safety Code, as added by 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, 2019. |