84R8242 AJZ-D
By: Johnson H.B. No. 2569
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to identifying teen pregnancy crisis areas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 531.0997 to read as follows:
Sec. 531.0997. TEEN PREGNANCY CRISIS AREA REPORT. (a) In
this section, "teen pregnancy crisis area" means a zip code area in
which the teen birth rate is at least two times the national teen
birth rate.
(b) The commission, using information available from the
Department of State Health Services and the United States Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention or other information the
commission determines is reliable, shall prepare an annual report
on teen pregnancy crisis areas.
(c) The report must include:
(1) a list of teen pregnancy crisis areas; and
(2) a list of zip code areas that were classified as
teen pregnancy crisis areas during the previous year, but are no
longer teen pregnancy crisis areas.
(d) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission
shall post the report on the commission's Internet website.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the Health and
Human Services Commission shall prepare and post on the
commission's Internet website the initial report required under
Section 531.0997, Government Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. 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, 2015.