By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 967
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the expiration and extension of certain public health
orders issued by a health authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 121, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 121.026 to read as follows:
Sec. 121.026. EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC
HEALTH ORDERS ISSUED BY HEALTH AUTHORITY. (a) This section applies
only to a public health order imposed on more than one individual,
animal, place, or object.
(b) A public health order issued by a health authority under
this chapter or other law expires on the eighth day following the
date the order is issued unless, before the eighth day, the
governing body of a municipality or the commissioners court of a
county that appointed the health authority by majority vote extends
the order for a longer period.
SECTION 2. Section 121.026, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a public health order issued by a
health authority on or after the effective date of this Act. A
public health order issued by a health authority before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
public health order was issued, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.