By: Phelan (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 1418
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2019;
  April 4, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 8, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to disease prevention and preparedness information for
  emergency medical services personnel on certification or
  recertification.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 773.0551 to read as follows:
         Sec. 773.0551.  DISEASE PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS
  INFORMATION ON CERTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
  PERSONNEL. (a)  In this section:
               (1)  "Applicant" means an individual who files an
  application for certification or recertification as emergency
  medical services personnel under Section 773.055.
               (2)  "Immunization registry" means the immunization
  registry established under Section 161.007.
         (b)  The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a system
  under which the Health and Human Services Commission provides an
  applicant immunization information.  The system must require the
  commission to provide:
               (1)  if the applicant's immunization history is
  included in the immunization registry, written notice of the
  applicant's immunization history, using information from the
  immunization registry; or
               (2)  if the applicant's immunization history is not
  included in the immunization registry, the following information:
                     (A)  details about the program developed under
  Section 161.00707; and
                     (B)  the specific risks to emergency medical
  services personnel when responding rapidly to an emergency of
  exposure to and infection by a potentially serious or deadly
  communicable disease that an immunization may prevent.
         SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement
  Section 773.0551, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2019.
 
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