Bill Text: TX HB1076 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1076 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the mandatory spinal screening of public and private school students.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1076 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1076-Comm_Sub.html

	85R13863 JG-D

	By: Oliverson, Howard, Sheffield, Meyer,	H.B. No. 1076
	VanDeaver, et al.

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1076:

	By: Huberty	C.S.H.B. No. 1076



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the mandatory spinal screening of public and private
	school students.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 37.001, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
	read as follows:
	(b) The executive commissioner, in cooperation with the
	Texas Education Agency, shall adopt rules for the mandatory spinal
	screening of children [~~in grades 6 and 9~~] attending public or
	private schools. In adopting rules under this subsection, the
	executive commissioner shall consider the most recent nationally
	accepted and peer-reviewed scientific research in determining the
	appropriate ages for conducting the spinal screening. The
	department shall coordinate the spinal screening program with any
	other screening program conducted by the department on those
	children.
	(b-1) The executive commissioner, in cooperation with the
	Texas Education Agency, by rule shall develop a process to notify a
	parent, managing conservator, or guardian of:
	(1) the screening requirement;
	(2) the purposes of and reasons for the screening
	requirement, including prevention of painful scoliosis correction
	surgery and medical risks to the child if screening is declined;
	(3) the noninvasive nature of the method used to
	conduct the screening; and
	(4) the method for declining to comply with the
	screening requirement through the use of an exemption described by
	Section 37.002(b).
	SECTION 2. (a) The executive commissioner of the Health and
	Human Services Commission shall adopt rules under Section 37.001,
	Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, not later than
	January 1, 2018.
	(b) This Act applies beginning with the 2018-2019 school
	year.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.