Bill Text: TX HB962 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required submission of vaccine injury reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB962-Introduced.html
| By: Toth | H.B. No. 962 | |
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| relating to required submission of vaccine injury reports to the | ||
| federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0103 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0103. REQUIRED REPORT OF VACCINE INJURIES AND | ||
| ADVERSE EVENTS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a health care | ||
| provider shall report each potential vaccine-related injury of a | ||
| patient the provider treats, including any adverse event following | ||
| vaccination, to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
| to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
