Bill Text: TX HB516 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of public school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Public Health [HB516 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB516-Introduced.html
| By: Beckley | H.B. No. 516 | |
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| relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of public | ||
| school students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 38.001, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (c), each student | ||
| shall be fully immunized against bacterial meningitis in accordance | ||
| with the most recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on | ||
| Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and | ||
| Prevention. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules for the implementation of | ||
| this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than June 1, 2022, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt the rules necessary to implement Section 38.001(a-1), | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 38.001(a-1), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
