LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 87TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
March 17, 2021

TO:
Honorable Stephanie Klick, Chair, House Committee on Public Health
 
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB797 by Howard (Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would allow home and community support services agencies and certain employees of those agencies to purchase, store, or transport any FDA-approved vaccine created to treat or mitigate the spread of a communicable disease for the purpose of administering the vaccine to agency employees, patients, or patient family members under a physician's standing orders.

The Health and Human Services Commission indicates that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed with the agency's existing resources.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
529 Hlth & Human Svcs Comm, 537 State Health Services
LBB Staff:
JMc, AKi, JLi, RD