S.B. No. 437
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a personal protective equipment
reserve advisory committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 81, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 81.016 to read as follows:
Sec. 81.016. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT RESERVE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) In this section, "division" means the
Texas Division of Emergency Management.
(b) The division shall establish the Personal Protective
Equipment Reserve Advisory Committee composed of the following
members appointed by the division:
(1) one representative of an association representing
different types of hospitals and health systems;
(2) one representative of an association representing
nursing facilities;
(3) one representative of an association representing
primary care clinics;
(4) one representative of an association representing
nurses;
(5) one representative of an association representing
home hospice care providers;
(6) one representative of a statewide association
representing physicians;
(7) two representatives of labor organizations that
represent essential personnel;
(8) one representative from the personal protective
equipment manufacturing industry;
(9) one consumer representative;
(10) one representative from an association
representing counties;
(11) one representative of a regional advisory council
from one of this state's trauma service areas;
(12) one representative from the department;
(13) one representative from the division; and
(14) one representative from the commission.
(c) The advisory committee shall make recommendations to
the division as necessary on:
(1) the procurements needed for a statewide personal
protective equipment reserve;
(2) the storage of the equipment in the reserve; and
(3) the distribution of the equipment to health care
workers and essential personnel.
(d) This section expires and the advisory committee is
abolished September 1, 2023.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the Texas Division of Emergency Management shall
appoint members to the Personal Protective Equipment Reserve
Advisory Committee established under Section 81.016, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. The Texas Division of Emergency Management is
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose or if
federal money is provided to this state and by law made available to
the division for the purposes of this Act. If the legislature does
not appropriate money specifically for that purpose and federal
money is not available for that purpose, the division may, but is
not required to, implement a provision of this Act using other
appropriations that are available for that purpose.
SECTION 4. 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, 2021.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the Senate on
April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 29, 2021, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 106,
Nays 41, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor