H.B. No. 1418
AN ACT
relating to disease prevention and preparedness information for
emergency medical services personnel on certification or
recertification.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.0551 to read as follows:
Sec. 773.0551. DISEASE PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS
INFORMATION ON CERTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
PERSONNEL. (a) In this section:
(1) "Applicant" means an individual who files an
application for certification or recertification as emergency
medical services personnel under Section 773.055.
(2) "Immunization registry" means the immunization
registry established under Section 161.007.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a system
under which the Health and Human Services Commission provides an
applicant immunization information. The system must require the
commission to provide:
(1) if the applicant's immunization history is
included in the immunization registry, written notice of the
applicant's immunization history, using information from the
immunization registry; or
(2) if the applicant's immunization history is not
included in the immunization registry, the following information:
(A) details about the program developed under
Section 161.00707; and
(B) the specific risks to emergency medical
services personnel when responding rapidly to an emergency of
exposure to and infection by a potentially serious or deadly
communicable disease that an immunization may prevent.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement
Section 773.0551, Health and Safety 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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1418 was passed by the House on April
2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1418 was passed by the Senate on May
15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor