By: Howard, Price, Jetton, Guerra, Klick, H.B. No. 797
      et al.
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines
  by a home and community support services agency or its employees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 142.0062(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A home and community support services agency or its
  employees who are registered nurses or licensed vocational nurses
  may purchase, store, or transport for the purpose of administering
  to the agency's employees, home health or hospice patients, or
  patient family members under physician's standing orders the
  following dangerous drugs:
               (1)  hepatitis B vaccine;
               (2)  influenza vaccine;
               (3)  tuberculin purified protein derivative for
  tuberculosis testing; [and]
               (4)  pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine; and
               (5)  any other vaccine approved, authorized for
  emergency use, or otherwise permitted for use by the United States
  Food and Drug Administration to treat or mitigate the spread of a
  communicable disease, as defined by Section 81.003.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2021.