Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB547 Compare Versions

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1	1	84R3822 KKR-F
2	2	By: Ellis S.B. No. 547
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to epidemiological reports and immunization exemption
8	8	data and reports.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 81.047, Health and Safety Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 81.047. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORTS. (a) Subject to the
13	13	confidentiality requirements of this chapter, the department shall
14	14	require epidemiological reports of disease outbreaks and of
15	15	individual cases of disease suspected or known to be of importance
16	16	to the public health, including vaccine preventable diseases. The
17	17	department shall evaluate the reports to determine the trends
18	18	involved and the nature and magnitude of the hazards.
19	19	(b) The department shall prepare and submit to the
20	20	legislature and the governor not later than December 1 of each
21	21	even-numbered year a biennial report that contains:
22	22	(1) a report of outbreaks of vaccine preventable
23	23	diseases in this state; and
24	24	(2) de-identified immunization exemption data,
25	25	including the number of persons claiming an exemption from the
26	26	immunization requirements of Section 161.004 of this code, Sections
27	27	38.001, 51.9192, and 51.933, Education Code, and Section 42.043,
28	28	Human Resources Code.
29	29	SECTION 2. Section 38.002, Education Code, is amended by
30	30	amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e)
31	31	to read as follows:
32	32	(a) Each public school shall keep an individual
33	33	immunization record during the period of attendance for each
34	34	student admitted. The records shall be open for inspection at all
35	35	reasonable times by the Texas Education Agency or by
36	36	representatives of local health departments or the [Texas]
37	37	Department of State Health Services.
38	38	(c) The Texas Education Agency and the [Texas] Department of
39	39	State Health Services shall develop the form for a required annual
40	40	report of the immunization status of students. The report shall be
41	41	submitted by all schools at the time and in the manner indicated in
42	42	the instructions printed on the form.
43	43	(d) Each school district shall provide the information
44	44	required by Subsection (c) for the district as a whole and for each
45	45	school campus in the district.
46	46	(e) The Department of State Health Services shall make
47	47	available to the public in electronic form, on the department's
48	48	Internet website, the required annual report of the immunization
49	49	status of students for each school district and for each school
50	50	campus, submitted under Subsection (c).
51	51	SECTION 3. Section 38.019(a), Education Code, is amended to
52	52	read as follows:
53	53	(a) A school district that maintains an Internet website
54	54	shall post prominently on the website:
55	55	(1) a list, in English and Spanish, of:
56	56	(A) the immunizations required for admission to
57	57	public school by rules of the Department of State Health Services
58	58	adopted under Section 38.001;
59	59	(B) any immunizations or vaccines recommended
60	60	for public school students by the Department of State Health
61	61	Services; [and]
62	62	(C) health clinics in the district that offer the
63	63	influenza vaccine, to the extent those clinics are known to the
64	64	district; and
65	65	(D) de-identified immunization exemption data,
66	66	including the number of persons claiming an exemption from the
67	67	immunization requirements of Section 38.001, for the district as a
68	68	whole and for each school campus in the district; and
69	69	(2) a link to the Department of State Health Services
70	70	Internet website where a person may obtain information relating to
71	71	the procedures for claiming an exemption from the immunization
72	72	requirements of Section 38.001.
73	73	SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date
74	74	of this Act, the Texas Education Agency shall update the form
75	75	required by Section 38.002(c), Education Code, as amended by this
76	76	Act, to comply with Section 38.002(d), Education Code, as added by
77	77	this Act.
78	78	SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
79	79	school year.
80	80	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
81	81	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
82	82	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
83	83	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
84	84	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.