Bill Text: TX HB1922 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a state plan for responding to pandemics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Referred to Public Health [HB1922 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1922-Introduced.html
| 87R2923 RDS-D | ||
| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 1922 | |
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| relating to a state plan for responding to pandemics. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 418.0423 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 418.0423. PANDEMIC RESPONSE PLAN. (a) In this | ||
| section, "pandemic" means an emerging infectious disease threat | ||
| that has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. | ||
| (b) The division shall prepare and keep current a pandemic | ||
| response plan. The plan may include provisions for: | ||
| (1) consulting infectious disease experts regarding: | ||
| (A) risk assessment; | ||
| (B) identification of the pathogen; and | ||
| (C) key questions about the pathogen that may | ||
| affect the size, scale, and design of the response; | ||
| (2) preventing and minimizing injury and damage caused | ||
| by a pandemic; | ||
| (3) prompt and effective response to a pandemic; | ||
| (4) emergency relief; | ||
| (5) identifying areas and populations particularly | ||
| vulnerable to the occurrence of a pandemic; | ||
| (6) communicating with governmental and private | ||
| entities, including entities listed in Section 418.051, to | ||
| facilitate coordination and collaboration for the efficient and | ||
| effective planning and execution of a pandemic response plan; | ||
| (7) organizing federal, state, and local pandemic | ||
| response activities; | ||
| (8) assisting local officials in designing local | ||
| pandemic response plans; | ||
| (9) preparing and distributing to appropriate state | ||
| and local officials catalogs of federal, state, and private | ||
| assistance programs; and | ||
| (10) other necessary matters relating to pandemics. | ||
| (c) In preparing and revising the pandemic response plan, | ||
| the division shall seek the assistance of: | ||
| (1) any necessary federal, state, or local | ||
| governmental entity; | ||
| (2) medical experts specializing in infectious | ||
| disease; and | ||
| (3) community leaders and business, labor, | ||
| agriculture, civic, and volunteer organizations. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
