Bill Text: TX HB476 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain duties of public institutions of higher education and the Department of State Health Services regarding policies on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors by public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-16 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB476 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB476-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 476 | ||
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| relating to certain duties of public institutions of higher | ||
| education and the Department of State Health Services regarding | ||
| policies on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors by public | ||
| institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.882, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (f) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (d) Each institution of higher education that adopts a | ||
| policy under Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) must require that the institution's campuses have | ||
| personnel or volunteers authorized and trained to administer an | ||
| epinephrine auto-injector present; and | ||
| (2) shall include the policy in the institution's | ||
| student handbook or similar publication and publish the policy on | ||
| the institution's Internet website. | ||
| (f) An institution of higher education that adopts a policy | ||
| under Subsection (a) shall submit to the Department of State Health | ||
| Services a copy of the policy and any amendment to the policy | ||
| adopted by the institution. The department shall maintain a record | ||
| of the most recent policy and amendments submitted by each | ||
| institution under this subsection and shall make that information | ||
| available to the public on request. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 476 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 476 was passed by the Senate on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
