Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 757 amends the Health and Safety Code to establish the Health Disparities Task Force to work with the Texas Department of Health in order to eliminate health and health access disparities among multicultural, disadvantaged, and regional populations and to reorganize department programs to eliminate those disparities. The bill requires the task force to work in consultation with the department, the Office of Minority Health and Cultural Competency, the women's health offices of the department, and other relevant divisions to investigate and report on health and health access disparities, develop short-term and long-term strategies to eliminate the disparities, and monitor the department's progress.