Bill Text: TX HB639 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of an emergency services district to provide preventive health care services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB639 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB639-Comm_Sub.html
| By: White, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) | H.B. No. 639 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021; | ||
| May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
| Government; May 22, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
| Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
| May 22, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 639 | By: Menéndez | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the authority of an emergency services district to | ||
| provide preventive health care services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 775, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 775.0311 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 775.0311. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES. (a) This | ||
| section applies to a district that is licensed as or contracts with: | ||
| (1) an emergency medical services provider under | ||
| Chapter 773; or | ||
| (2) a first responder organization under Chapter 773. | ||
| (b) In this section, "preventive health care services" | ||
| means out-of-hospital routine health care services, including | ||
| immunizations, screenings, checkups, and patient counseling, | ||
| provided for the purpose of preventing illness, disease, or other | ||
| health problems. | ||
| (c) A district may provide preventive health care services | ||
| to reduce reliance on 9-1-1 transports and systems for routine | ||
| health care and contract with the state or a local government, as | ||
| provided by Section 775.0366, to provide those services. | ||
| (d) A reference in this chapter to the district providing | ||
| emergency services includes preventive health care services. | ||
| (e) A district may make necessary improvements and adopt | ||
| rules and regulations for the purposes of this section. | ||
| (f) A district in a county with a population of less than | ||
| 60,000 must obtain approval from the county commissioners court | ||
| prior to providing services under this section. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
| * * * * * | ||
