By Sadler H.B. No. 1491
74R4662 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to partner notification programs for persons with human
1-3 immunodeficiency virus infection.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 81.051, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by adding a new Subsection (g) and relettering current
1-7 Subsections (g)-(i) to read as follows:
1-8 (g) A partner notification program shall make the
1-9 notification of a partner of a person with HIV infection in the
1-10 manner authorized by this section regardless of whether the person
1-11 with HIV infection who gave the partner's name consents to the
1-12 notification.
1-13 (h) <(g)> A partner notification program shall provide
1-14 counseling, testing, or referral services to a person with HIV
1-15 infection regardless of whether the person discloses the names of
1-16 any partners.
1-17 (i) <(h)> A partner notification program shall routinely
1-18 evaluate the performance of counselors and other program personnel
1-19 to ensure that high quality services are being delivered. A
1-20 program shall adopt quality assurance and training guidelines
1-21 according to recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control of
1-22 the United States Public Health Service for professionals
1-23 participating in the program.
1-24 (j) <(i)> In this section, "HIV" has the meaning assigned
2-1 by Section 81.101.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.