Bill Text: TX SB852 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the content of certain biennial legislative reports on immunizations issued by the Department of State Health Services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB852 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB852-Introduced.html

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88R3319 LRM-F
By: Miles S.B. No. 852

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the content of certain biennial legislative reports on
immunizations issued by the Department of State Health Services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 161.0074(d), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) In [If a public health disaster was declared under
Chapter 81 during the preceding two years, in] addition to the
information required under Subsection (c), for immunizations that
immunize an individual against a [the] communicable disease
[subject to the declaration] the report must:
(1) include information by county on the accessibility
to the immunizations of county residents by age, race, disability,
and geographic location, provided the information does not
personally identify any individual;
(2) identify and assess disparities in access to the
immunizations by age, race, disability, and geographic location,
including an assessment of immunization accessibility in each
county;
(3) include the estimated economic benefit to this
state of reducing disparities in immunization accessibility;
(4) include recommendations for reducing disparities
in immunization accessibility; and
(5) include recommendations for legislative action to
increase immunization rates.
SECTION 2. 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, 2023.