82R1328 NAJ-D
 
  By: Veasey, Alonzo H.B. No. 123
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an adult diabetes education program in certain county
 
  hospital systems and hospital districts.
         
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
 
  Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.077 to read as follows:
         
         Sec. 1001.077.  ADULT DIABETES EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) In
 
  counties with populations of more than 100,000, the department may
 
  assist hospital districts and county hospital systems in providing
 
  an adult diabetes education program. The program must be based on a
 
  curriculum developed by the Texas Diabetes Council.
         
         (b)  A hospital district or county hospital system that
 
  participates in the program shall:
               
               (1)  make the adult diabetes education program
 
  available in English and Spanish using the curriculum developed by
 
  the Texas Diabetes Council; and
               
               (2)  make the education program available in the
 
  county, including at each rural health clinic the district or
 
  system may have.
         
         (c)  The Texas Diabetes Council shall develop for the adult
 
  diabetes education program a curriculum emphasizing life choices
 
  that enable a diabetic patient to control the disease and improve
 
  the patient's standard of living.
         
         SECTION 2.  Not later than June 1, 2012, the Texas Diabetes
 
  Council shall develop the curriculum required by Section 1001.077,
 
  Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.