Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB506 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	81R3814 SJM-D
2	2	By: Howard of Travis H.B. No. 506
3	3
4	4
5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the establishment and implementation of a school-based
8	8	influenza vaccination pilot program.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. (a) The Department of State Health Services and
11	11	the Texas Education Agency shall jointly establish and implement
12	12	for the 2009-2010 school year a school-based influenza vaccination
13	13	pilot program using both killed vaccine and live attenuated vaccine
14	14	in:
15	15	(1) a school district with a student population of
16	16	50,000 or more that is at least 85 percent economically
17	17	disadvantaged and located in a home-rule municipality with a
18	18	population of more than 1.1 million;
19	19	(2) a school district with a student population that
20	20	is less than five percent economically disadvantaged and located in
21	21	a municipality with a population of more than 600,000 and less than
22	22	one million; and
23	23	(3) two school districts selected by the Texas
24	24	Immunization Stakeholder Working Group including:
25	25	(A) one school district with a student population
26	26	that is at least 90 percent economically disadvantaged and located
27	27	in a county with a population of 50,000 or less; and
28	28	(B) one school district with a student population
29	29	that is at least 90 percent economically disadvantaged and located
30	30	in a county on the international border.
31	31	(b) The Texas Immunization Stakeholder Working Group shall
32	32	establish within the working group a pilot program subcommittee
33	33	composed of representatives from:
34	34	(1) the Texas Pediatric Society;
35	35	(2) the Texas Academy of Family Physicians;
36	36	(3) each school district in which the pilot program
37	37	will operate, after the selection of those districts under
38	38	Subsection (a) of this section;
39	39	(4) the state Medicaid medical director; and
40	40	(5) each local health department that serves the
41	41	geographic area in which a participating school district is
42	42	located.
43	43	(c) Members of the Texas Immunization Stakeholder Working
44	44	Group that do not serve on the pilot program subcommittee shall
45	45	serve in an advisory role for the planning and implementation of the
46	46	school-based influenza vaccination pilot program.
47	47	(d) The Department of State Health Services, the Texas
48	48	Education Agency, and the pilot program subcommittee shall plan the
49	49	school-based influenza vaccination pilot program established and
50	50	implemented under this section.
51	51	(e) The Department of State Health Services, the Texas
52	52	Education Agency, and the pilot program subcommittee shall:
53	53	(1) implement the school-based influenza vaccination
54	54	pilot program in the school districts selected under Subsection (a)
55	55	of this section for the 2009-2010 school year; and
56	56	(2) collect all relevant data related to the program
57	57	during the 2009-2010 school year.
58	58	(f) Not later than December 1, 2010, the Department of State
59	59	Health Services and the Texas Education Agency shall submit to the
60	60	governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of
61	61	representatives, and presiding officers of each standing committee
62	62	of the legislature with jurisdiction over the department and the
63	63	agency a jointly written report on the implementation and results
64	64	of the school-based influenza vaccination pilot program that
65	65	includes:
66	66	(1) an analysis of the costs and benefits of
67	67	implementing the school-based influenza vaccination pilot program
68	68	in each school district listed by Subsection (a) of this section;
69	69	(2) identification of barriers to implementing the
70	70	pilot program and recommendations for removing those barriers;
71	71	(3) a projection of the fiscal impact of implementing
72	72	a statewide school-based influenza vaccination program; and
73	73	(4) an analysis of the pilot program's impact on
74	74	private practice physicians who administer influenza vaccination
75	75	in this state.
76	76	(g) The Department of State Health Services and the Texas
77	77	Education Agency may seek, receive, and spend money received
78	78	through an appropriation, grant, donation, or reimbursement from
79	79	any public or private source to implement the school-based
80	80	influenza vaccination pilot program.
81	81	SECTION 2. This Act expires September 1, 2011.
82	82	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
83	83	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
84	84	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
85	85	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
86	86	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.