Bill Text: TX SB85 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 85 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the implementation by public schools of certain COVID-19 public health orders issued by a health authority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Filed [SB85 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB85-Introduced.html

	87S20367 JG-D

	By: Eckhardt, et al.	S.B. No. 85



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the implementation by public schools of certain
	COVID-19 public health orders issued by a health authority.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 38.0023 to read as follows:
	Sec. 38.0023. REQUIRED IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN COVID-19
	PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS. (a) In this section, "health authority" has
	the meaning assigned by Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code.
	(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district shall
	implement or otherwise comply with health directives outlined in a
	public health order issued by a health authority with jurisdiction
	over territory in which the district is wholly or partly located
	regarding evidence-based practices to reduce or eliminate the
	transmission of or infection with COVID-19 among district students
	and staff, including directives requiring the students and staff to
	wear face masks or face coverings.
	SECTION 2. Section 38.0023, Education Code, as added by
	this Act, applies only to a public health order issued by a health
	authority on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.