By: Kolkhorst  S.B. No. 967
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2021; March 11, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
  March 26, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 0; March 26, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the expiration and extension of certain public health
  orders issued by a health authority.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 121, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 121.026 to read as follows:
         Sec. 121.026.  EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC
  HEALTH ORDERS ISSUED BY HEALTH AUTHORITY. (a)  This section applies
  only to a public health order imposed on more than one individual,
  animal, place, or object.
         (b)  A public health order issued by a health authority under
  this chapter or other law expires on the eighth day following the
  date the order is issued unless, before the eighth day, the
  governing body of a municipality or the commissioners court of a
  county that appointed the health authority by majority vote extends
  the order for a longer period.
         SECTION 2.  Section 121.026, Health and Safety Code, as
  added by this Act, applies only to a public health order issued by a
  health authority on or after the effective date of this Act. A
  public health order issued by a health authority before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
  public health order was issued, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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