Bill Text: TX SB85 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the implementation by public schools of certain COVID-19 public health orders issued by a health authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
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 | |
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| 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. | ||
