S.B. No. 437
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment of a personal protective equipment
  reserve advisory committee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 81, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 81.016 to read as follows:
         Sec. 81.016.  PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT RESERVE
  ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) In this section, "division" means the
  Texas Division of Emergency Management.
         (b)  The division shall establish the Personal Protective
  Equipment Reserve Advisory Committee composed of the following
  members appointed by the division:
               (1)  one representative of an association representing
  different types of hospitals and health systems;
               (2)  one representative of an association representing
  nursing facilities;
               (3)  one representative of an association representing
  primary care clinics;
               (4)  one representative of an association representing
  nurses;
               (5)  one representative of an association representing
  home hospice care providers;
               (6)  one representative of a statewide association
  representing physicians;
               (7)  two representatives of labor organizations that
  represent essential personnel;
               (8)  one representative from the personal protective
  equipment manufacturing industry;
               (9)  one consumer representative;
               (10)  one representative from an association
  representing counties;
               (11)  one representative of a regional advisory council
  from one of this state's trauma service areas;
               (12)  one representative from the department;
               (13)  one representative from the division; and
               (14)  one representative from the commission.
         (c)  The advisory committee shall make recommendations to
  the division as necessary on:
               (1)  the procurements needed for a statewide personal
  protective equipment reserve;
               (2)  the storage of the equipment in the reserve; and
               (3)  the distribution of the equipment to health care
  workers and essential personnel.
         (d)  This section expires and the advisory committee is
  abolished September 1, 2023.
         SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the Texas Division of Emergency Management shall
  appoint members to the Personal Protective Equipment Reserve
  Advisory Committee established under Section 81.016, Health and
  Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  The Texas Division of Emergency Management is
  required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
  legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose or if
  federal money is provided to this state and by law made available to
  the division for the purposes of this Act.  If the legislature does
  not appropriate money specifically for that purpose and federal
  money is not available for that purpose, the division may, but is
  not required to, implement a provision of this Act using other
  appropriations that are available for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  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.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the Senate on    
  April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
  the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 29, 2021, by the
  following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 437 passed the House, with
  amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 106,
  Nays 41, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor