Bill Text: TX HB1528 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of services to certain HIV-infected individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB1528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1528-Introduced.html
| By: Farrar | H.B. No. 1528 | |
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| relating to the provision of services to certain HIV-infected | ||
| individuals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of Sec. 85.061, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 85.061. HIV MEDICATION PROGRAM. (a) The Texas HIV | ||
| medication program is established in the department. | ||
| (b) (1) The program shall assist hospital districts, local | ||
| health departments, public or nonprofit hospitals and clinics, | ||
| nonprofit community organizations, and HIV-infected individuals in | ||
| the purchase of medications approved by the board that have been | ||
| shown to be effective in reducing hospitalizations due to | ||
| HIV-related conditions. | ||
| (2) Out of funding available under Subchapter C and D, | ||
| the program shall assist in the provision of discharge planning and | ||
| transitional primary care and social support services to | ||
| HIV-infected individuals in the custody of a local county jail in a | ||
| county with a population of 3.3 million or more who are nearing | ||
| release or whose incarceration is of a short duration. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
