By: Kolkhorst	S.B. No. 967
	(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2021; March 11, 2021, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
	March 26, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
	Nays 0; March 26, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the expiration and extension of certain public health
	orders issued by a health authority.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 121, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 121.026 to read as follows:
	Sec. 121.026.  EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC
	HEALTH ORDERS ISSUED BY HEALTH AUTHORITY. (a)  This section applies
	only to a public health order imposed on more than one individual,
	animal, place, or object.
	(b)  A public health order issued by a health authority under
	this chapter or other law expires on the eighth day following the
	date the order is issued unless, before the eighth day, the
	governing body of a municipality or the commissioners court of a
	county that appointed the health authority by majority vote extends
	the order for a longer period.
	SECTION 2.  Section 121.026, Health and Safety 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. A
	public health order issued by a health authority before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
	public health order was issued, and the former law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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