Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 81 - Communicable Diseases

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 81.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
• Texas Section 81.002 - Responsibility Of State And Public
  The state has a duty to protect the public health. Each person shall act responsibly to prevent and control communicable disease. Acts 1989, 71st Leg.,...
• Texas Section 81.003 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Communicable disease" means an illness that occurs through the transmission of an infectious agent or its toxic products from a reservoir...
• Texas Section 81.004 - Administration Of Chapter
  (a) The commissioner is responsible for the general statewide administration of this chapter. (b) The executive commissioner may adopt rules necessary for the effective administration...
• Texas Section 81.005 - Contracts
  The department may enter into contracts or agreements with persons as necessary to implement this chapter. The contracts or agreements may provide for payment by...
• Texas Section 81.006 - Funds
  The department may seek, receive, and spend appropriations, grants, fees, or donations for the purpose of identifying, reporting, preventing, or controlling communicable diseases or conditions...
• Texas Section 81.007 - Limitation On Liability
  A private individual performing duties in compliance with orders or instructions of the department or a health authority issued under this chapter is not liable...
• Texas Section 81.008 - Communicable Disease In Animals; Exchange Of Information
  The Texas Animal Health Commission and the Texas A&M University Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory shall each adopt by rule a memorandum of understanding, adopted also...
• Texas Section 81.009 - Exemption From Medical Treatment
  (a) This chapter does not authorize or require the medical treatment of an individual who chooses treatment by prayer or spiritual means as part of...
• Texas Section 81.011 - Request For Information
  In times of emergency or epidemic declared by the commissioner, the department is authorized to request information pertaining to names, dates of birth, and most...
• Texas Section 81.012 - Designated Infection Control Officer
  (a) An entity that employs or uses the services of an emergency response employee or volunteer shall nominate a designated infection control officer and an...

SUBCHAPTER B PREVENTION

• Texas Section 81.013 - Consideration Of Federal Law And Regulations
  The executive commissioner shall review the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (Pub. L. No. 111-87) or any successor law and any regulations...
• Texas Section 81.021 - Protection Of Public Health
  The executive commissioner and department shall exercise their powers in matters relating to protecting the public health to prevent the introduction of disease into the...
• Texas Section 81.022 - Health Education
  (a) The department may conduct a program of health education for the prevention and control of communicable disease. (b) The department may contract for presentations...
• Texas Section 81.023 - Immunization
  (a) The department shall develop immunization requirements for children. (b) The department shall cooperate with the Department of Family and Protective Services in formulating and...

SUBCHAPTER C REPORTS AND REPORTABLE DISEASES

• Texas Section 81.024 - Reports By Department
  The department shall provide regular reports of the incidence, prevalence, and medical and economic effects of each disease that the department determines is a threatening...
• Texas Section 81.041 - Reportable Diseases
  (a) The executive commissioner shall identify each communicable disease or health condition that shall be reported under this chapter. (b) The executive commissioner shall classify...
• Texas Section 81.042 - Persons Required To Report
  (a) A report under Subsection (b), (c), or (d) shall be made to the local health authority. (b) A dentist or veterinarian licensed to practice...
• Texas Section 81.043 - Records And Reports Of Health Authority
  (a) Each health authority shall keep a record of each case of a reportable disease that is reported to the authority. (b) A health authority...
• Texas Section 81.044 - Reporting Procedures
  (a) The executive commissioner shall prescribe the form and method of reporting under this chapter, which may be in writing, by telephone, by electronic data...
• Texas Section 81.045 - Reports Of Death
  (a) A physician who attends a person during the person's last illness shall immediately notify the health authority of the jurisdiction in which the person's...
• Texas Section 81.046 - Confidentiality
  (a) Reports, records, and information received from any source, including from a federal agency or from another state, furnished to a public health district, a...
• Texas Section 81.047 - Epidemiological Reports
  Subject to the confidentiality requirements of this chapter, the department shall require epidemiological reports of disease outbreaks and of individual cases of disease suspected or...
• Texas Section 81.048 - Notification Of Emergency Response Employee Or Volunteer
  (a) The executive commissioner shall: (1) designate certain reportable diseases for notification under this section; and (2) define the conditions that constitute possible exposure to...
• Texas Section 81.049 - Failure To Report; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly fails to report a reportable disease or health condition under this subchapter. (b) An offense...
• Texas Section 81.050 - Mandatory Testing Of Persons Suspected Of Exposing Certain Other Persons To Reportable Diseases, Including Hiv Infection
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe the criteria that constitute exposure to reportable diseases. The criteria must be based on activities that the...
• Texas Section 81.051 - Partner Notification Programs; Hiv Infection
  (a) The department shall establish programs for partner notification and referral services. (b) The partner notification services offered by health care providers participating in a...

SUBCHAPTER D INVESTIGATION AND INSPECTION

• Texas Section 81.052 - Reports And Analyses Concerning Aids And Hiv Infection
  (a) The department shall ensure timely and accurate reporting under this chapter of information relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus infection....
• Texas Section 81.061 - Investigation
  (a) The department shall investigate the causes of communicable disease and methods of prevention. (b) The department may require special investigations of specified cases of...
• Texas Section 81.062 - Witnesses; Documents
  (a) For the purpose of an investigation under Section 81.061(c), the department may administer oaths, summon witnesses, and compel the attendance of a witness or...
• Texas Section 81.063 - Samples
  (a) A person authorized to conduct an investigation under this subchapter may take samples of materials present on the premises, including soil, water, air, unprocessed...
• Texas Section 81.064 - Inspection
  (a) The department or a health authority may enter at reasonable times and inspect within reasonable limits a public place in the performance of that...
• Texas Section 81.065 - Right Of Entry
  (a) For an investigation or inspection, the commissioner, an employee of the department, or a health authority has the right of entry on land or...
• Texas Section 81.066 - Concealing Communicable Disease Or Exposure To Communicable Disease; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly conceals or attempts to conceal from the department, a health authority, or a peace officer,...
• Texas Section 81.067 - Concealing, Removing, Or Disposing Of An Infected Or Contaminated Animal, Object, Vehicle, Watercraft, Or Aircraft; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly conceals, removes, or disposes of an infected or contaminated animal, object, vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft...

SUBCHAPTER E CONTROL

• Texas Section 81.068 - Refusing Entry Or Inspection; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly refuses or attempts to refuse entry to the department, a health authority, or a peace...
• Texas Section 81.081 - Department's Duty
  The department shall impose control measures to prevent the spread of disease in the exercise of its power to protect the public health. Acts 1989,...
• Texas Section 81.082 - Administration Of Control Measures
  (a) A health authority has supervisory authority and control over the administration of communicable disease control measures in the health authority's jurisdiction unless specifically preempted...
• Texas Section 81.083 - Application Of Control Measures To Individual
  (a) Any person, including a physician, who examines or treats an individual who has a communicable disease shall instruct the individual about: (1) measures for...
• Texas Section 81.084 - Application Of Control Measures To Property
  (a) If the department or a health authority has reasonable cause to believe that property in its jurisdiction is or may be infected or contaminated...
• Texas Section 81.085 - Area Quarantine; Criminal Penalty
  (a) If an outbreak of communicable disease occurs in this state, the commissioner or one or more health authorities may impose an area quarantine coextensive...
• Texas Section 81.086 - Application Of Control Measures To Private And Common Carriers And Private Conveyances
  (a) This section applies to any private or common carrier or private conveyance, including a vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft, while the vehicle or craft is...
• Texas Section 81.087 - Violation Of Control Measure Orders; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly refuses to perform or allow the performance of certain control measures ordered by a health...
• Texas Section 81.088 - Removal, Alteration, Or Destruction Of Quarantine Devices; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally: (1) removes, alters, or attempts to remove or alter an object the person...
• Texas Section 81.089 - Transportation; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if, before notifying the department or health authority at a port of entry or a place of first landing...
• Texas Section 81.090 - Diagnostic Testing During Pregnancy And After Birth
  (a) A physician or other person permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman during gestation or at delivery of an infant shall: (1) take...
• Texas Section 81.091 - Ophthalmia Neonatorum Prevention; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A physician, nurse, midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall use or cause to be used prophylaxis approved by the executive commissioner...
• Texas Section 81.092 - Contracts For Services
  The department may contract with a physician to provide services to persons infected or reasonably suspected of being infected with a sexually transmitted disease or...
• Texas Section 81.093 - Persons Prosecuted For Certain Crimes
  (a) A court may direct a person convicted of an offense under Section 43.02, Penal Code, under Chapter 481 (Texas Controlled Substances Act), or under...
• Texas Section 81.094 - Testing By Hospitals Of Persons Indicted For Certain Crimes
  A hospital shall perform a medical procedure or test on a person if a court orders the hospital to perform the procedure or test on...
• Texas Section 81.095 - Testing For Accidental Exposure
  (a) In a case of accidental exposure of a health care worker to blood or other body fluids of a patient in a licensed hospital,...

SUBCHAPTER F TESTS FOR ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME AND RELATED DISORDERS

• Texas Section 81.0955 - Testing For Accidental Exposure Involving A Deceased Person
  (a) This section applies only to the accidental exposure to the blood or other body fluids of a person who dies at the scene of...
• Texas Section 81.101 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Public...
• Texas Section 81.102 - Tests; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person may not require another person to undergo a medical procedure or test designed to determine or help determine if a person has...
• Texas Section 81.103 - Confidentiality; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A test result is confidential. A person that possesses or has knowledge of a test result may not release or disclose the test result...
• Texas Section 81.104 - Injunction; Civil Liability
  (a) A person may bring an action to restrain a violation or threatened violation of Section 81.102 or 81.103. (b) A person who violates Section...
• Texas Section 81.105 - Informed Consent
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, a person may not perform a test designed to identify HIV or its antigen or antibody without first...
• Texas Section 81.106 - General Consent
  (a) A person who has signed a general consent form for the performance of medical tests or procedures is not required to also sign or...
• Texas Section 81.107 - Consent To Test For Certain Accidental Exposures
  (a) In a case of accidental exposure to blood or other body fluids under Section 81.102(a)(5)(D), the health care agency or facility may test a...
• Texas Section 81.108 - Testing By Insurers
  The Insurance Code and any rules adopted by the commissioner of insurance for the Texas Department of Insurance exclusively govern all practices of insurers in...

SUBCHAPTER G COURT ORDERS FOR MANAGEMENT OF PERSONS WITH COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

• Texas Section 81.109 - Counseling Required For Positive Test Results
  (a) A positive test result may not be revealed to the person tested without giving that person the immediate opportunity for individual, face-to-face post-test counseling...
• Texas Section 81.151 - Application For Court Order
  (a) At the request of the health authority, a municipal, county, or district attorney shall file a sworn written application for a court order for...
• Texas Section 81.1511 - Applicability Of Subchapter To Group
  To the extent possible, and except as otherwise provided, if a group application is filed under Section 81.151(e), the provisions of this subchapter apply to...
• Texas Section 81.152 - Form Of Application
  (a) An application for a court order for the management of a person with a communicable disease must be styled using the person's initials and...
• Texas Section 81.153 - Appointment Of Attorney
  (a) The judge shall appoint an attorney to represent a person not later than the 24th hour after the time an application for a court...
• Texas Section 81.1531 - Appointment Of Attorney For Group
  (a) A judge shall appoint an attorney to represent a group identified in a group application under Section 81.151(e) and shall appoint an attorney for...
• Texas Section 81.154 - Setting On Application
  (a) The judge or a magistrate designated under this chapter shall set a date for a hearing to be held within 14 days after the...
• Texas Section 81.155 - Notice
  (a) The person and the person's attorney are entitled to receive a copy of the application and written notice of the time and place of...
• Texas Section 81.156 - Disclosure Of Information
  (a) The person's attorney may request information from the attorney general or the municipal, county, or district attorney, as appropriate, in accordance with this section...
• Texas Section 81.157 - District Court Jurisdiction
  (a) A proceeding under this chapter must be held in a district court of the county in which the person is found, resides, or is...
• Texas Section 81.158 - Affidavit Of Medical Evaluation
  (a) An affidavit of medical evaluation must be dated and signed by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, or by a health authority with the...
• Texas Section 81.159 - Designation Of Facility
  (a) The commissioner shall designate health care facilities throughout the state that are capable of providing services for the examination, observation, isolation, or treatment of...
• Texas Section 81.160 - Liberty Pending Hearing
  The person who is the subject of an application for management is entitled to remain at liberty pending the hearing on the application unless the...
• Texas Section 81.161 - Motion For Order Of Protective Custody
  (a) A motion for an order of protective custody may be filed only in the court in which an application for a court order for...
• Texas Section 81.162 - Issuance Of Order
  (a) The judge or designated magistrate may issue a protective custody order if the judge or magistrate determines: (1) that the health authority or department...
• Texas Section 81.163 - Apprehension Under Order
  (a) A protective custody order shall direct a peace officer, including a sheriff or constable, to take the person who is the subject of the...
• Texas Section 81.164 - Appointment Of Attorney
  (a) The judge or designated magistrate shall appoint an attorney to represent a person who is the subject of a protective custody order who does...
• Texas Section 81.165 - Probable Cause Hearing
  (a) A hearing must be held to determine if: (1) there is probable cause to believe that a person under a protective custody order presents...
• Texas Section 81.166 - Order For Continued Detention
  (a) The magistrate or master shall order that a person remain in protective custody if the magistrate or master determines after the hearing that an...
• Texas Section 81.167 - Detention In Protective Custody
  (a) The head of a facility or the facility head's designee shall detain a person under a protective custody order in the facility pending a...
• Texas Section 81.168 - Release From Detention
  (a) The magistrate or master shall order the release of a person under a protective custody order if the magistrate or master determines after the...
• Texas Section 81.169 - General Provisions Relating To Hearing
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the judge may hold a hearing on an application for a court order for the management of a...
• Texas Section 81.170 - Right To Jury
  (a) A hearing for temporary management must be before the court unless the person or the person's attorney requests a jury. (b) A hearing for...
• Texas Section 81.171 - Release After Hearing
  (a) The court shall enter an order denying an application for a court order for temporary or extended management if after a hearing the judge...
• Texas Section 81.172 - Order For Temporary Management
  (a) The judge or jury may determine that a person requires court-ordered examination, observation, isolation, or treatment only if the judge or jury finds, from...
• Texas Section 81.173 - Order For Extended Management
  (a) The jury, or the judge if the right to a jury is waived, may determine that a proposed patient requires court-ordered examination, observation, isolation,...
• Texas Section 81.174 - Order Of Care Or Commitment
  (a) The judge shall dismiss the jury, if any, after a hearing in which a person is found: (1) to be infected with or reasonably...
• Texas Section 81.175 - Court-ordered Outpatient Services
  (a) The court, in an order that directs a person to participate in an outpatient communicable disease program, shall designate a health authority to monitor...
• Texas Section 81.176 - Designation Of Facility
  In a court order for the temporary or extended management of a person with a communicable disease specifying inpatient care, the court shall commit the...
• Texas Section 81.177 - Commitment To Private Facility
  (a) The court may order a person committed to a private health care facility at no expense to the state if the court receives: (1)...
• Texas Section 81.178 - Commitment To Federal Facility
  (a) A court may order a person committed to a federal agency that operates a health care facility if the court receives written notice from...
• Texas Section 81.179 - Transportation Of Person
  (a) The court shall order the sheriff or constable to transport the person to the designated health care facility. (b) A female shall be accompanied...
• Texas Section 81.180 - Writ Of Commitment
  The court shall direct the court clerk to issue to the individual authorized to transport the person two writs of commitment requiring the individual to...
• Texas Section 81.181 - Acknowledgement Of Delivery
  The head of the facility, after receiving a copy of the writ of commitment and after admitting the person, shall: (1) give the individual transporting...
• Texas Section 81.182 - Modification Of Order For Inpatient Treatment
  (a) At the request of the health authority, a municipal, county, or district attorney, as appropriate, shall request the court that entered the commitment order...
• Texas Section 81.183 - Motion For Modification Of Order For Outpatient Treatment
  (a) The court that entered an order directing a person to participate in outpatient health services may set a hearing to determine if the order...
• Texas Section 81.184 - Order For Temporary Detention
  (a) At the request of the health authority, a municipal, county, or district attorney, as appropriate, shall file a sworn application for the person's temporary...
• Texas Section 81.185 - Apprehension And Release Under Order For Temporary Detention
  (a) The order for temporary detention shall direct a peace officer, including a sheriff or constable, to take the person into custody and immediately transport...
• Texas Section 81.186 - Order Of Modification Of Order For Outpatient Services
  (a) The court may modify an order for outpatient services at the modification hearing if the court determines that the person continues to meet the...
• Texas Section 81.187 - Renewal Of Order For Extended Management
  (a) A municipal, county, or district attorney, as appropriate, at the request of the health authority, shall file an application to renew an order for...
• Texas Section 81.188 - Motion For Rehearing
  (a) The court may set aside an order for the management of a person with a communicable disease and grant a motion for rehearing for...
• Texas Section 81.189 - Request For Reexamination
  (a) A person subject to an order for extended management, or any interested person on the person's behalf and with the person's consent, may file...
• Texas Section 81.190 - Hearing On Request For Reexamination
  (a) A court that required a patient's reexamination under Section 81.189 may set a date and place for a hearing on the request if, not...
• Texas Section 81.191 - Appeal
  (a) An appeal from an order for the management of a person with a communicable disease, or from a renewal or modification of an order,...
• Texas Section 81.192 - Continuing Care Plan Before Discharge
  The health authority or department, in consultation with the person, shall prepare a continuing care plan for a person who is scheduled to be discharged...
• Texas Section 81.193 - Pass From Inpatient Care
  (a) The head of a facility may permit a person admitted to the facility under order for extended inpatient management of a person with a...
• Texas Section 81.194 - Return To Facility
  (a) If a person is permitted to leave a facility under Section 81.193, the head of the facility may have the person taken into custody,...
• Texas Section 81.195 - Discharge On Expiration Of Court Order
  The head of a facility to which a person was committed or from which a person was required to receive temporary or extended inpatient or...
• Texas Section 81.196 - Discharge Before Expiration Of Court Order
  (a) The health authority or department may direct the head of a facility to which a person was committed for inpatient health services or that...
• Texas Section 81.197 - Certificate Of Discharge
  Before a person is discharged under Section 81.195 or 81.196, the health authority or department shall prepare a discharge certificate, file it with the court...
• Texas Section 81.198 - Authorization For Admission
  The head of a health care facility may admit and detain a person under the procedures prescribed by this subchapter. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 81.199 - Transfer To Federal Facility
  The health authority or department may authorize the head of a health care facility to transfer a person to a federal agency if: (1) the...
• Texas Section 81.200 - Transfer Of Records
  The head of the transferring inpatient health care facility shall send the person's appropriate medical records, or a copy of the records, to the head...
• Texas Section 81.201 - Writ Of Habeas Corpus
  This subchapter does not limit a person's right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 81.202 - Effect On Guardianship
  This subchapter, or an action taken or a determination made under this subchapter, does not affect a guardianship established under law. Acts 1989, 71st Leg.,...
• Texas Section 81.203 - Confidentiality Of Records
  Records of a health care facility that directly or indirectly identify a present, former, or proposed patient are confidential unless disclosure is permitted by this...
• Texas Section 81.204 - Rights Subject To Limitation By Head Of Facility
  (a) A person in an inpatient health care facility has the right to: (1) receive visitors; (2) communicate with a person outside the facility; and...
• Texas Section 81.205 - Notification Of Rights
  A person receiving inpatient health services shall be informed of the rights provided by Section 81.206: (1) orally, in simple, nontechnical terms; (2) in writing...
• Texas Section 81.206 - General Rights Relating To Treatment
  A person receiving health services under this subchapter has the right to: (1) appropriate treatment for the person's illness in an appropriate setting consistent with...
• Texas Section 81.207 - Adequacy Of Treatment
  (a) The head of an inpatient health care facility shall provide adequate medical care and treatment to every patient in accordance with accepted standards of...
• Texas Section 81.208 - Periodic Examination
  The head of a health care facility is responsible for the examination by a physician of each person admitted to the facility under this subchapter...
• Texas Section 81.209 - Use Of Physical Restraint
  (a) A physical restraint may not be applied to a person unless a physician prescribes the restraint. (b) A physical restraint shall be removed as...
• Texas Section 81.210 - Costs
  (a) A county shall pay the costs for a hearing or proceeding under this subchapter if a health authority: (1) initiates an application for a...
• Texas Section 81.211 - Filing And Status Of Foreign Court Orders
  (a) In the case of a person who is not a resident of this state and who may be admitted to a public health hospital...

SUBCHAPTER H BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN EXPOSURE CONTROL PLAN

• Texas Section 81.212 - Evading Or Resisting Apprehension Or Transport; Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person who is subject to a protective custody order or temporary detention order issued by a court under this subchapter commits an offense...
• Texas Section 81.301 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Bloodborne pathogens" means pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and that can cause diseases in humans. The term includes...
• Texas Section 81.302 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  This subchapter applies only to a governmental unit that employs employees who: (1) provide services in a public or private facility providing health care-related services,...
• Texas Section 81.303 - Exposure Control Plan
  The department shall establish an exposure control plan designed to minimize exposure of employees described by Section 81.302 to bloodborne pathogens. In developing the plan,...
• Texas Section 81.304 - Minimum Standards
  The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt minimum standards to implement the exposure control plan and the other provisions of this subchapter. The rules shall...
• Texas Section 81.305 - Needleless Systems
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall recommend that governmental units implement needleless systems and sharps with engineered sharps injury protection for employees. (b) The...
• Texas Section 81.306 - Sharps Injury Log
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require that information concerning exposure incidents be recorded in a written or electronic sharps injury log to be...

SUBCHAPTER I ANIMAL-BORNE DISEASES

• Texas Section 81.307 - Device Registration
  (a) The department, in accordance with rules adopted by the executive commissioner, shall implement a registration program for existing needleless systems and sharps with engineered...
• Texas Section 81.351 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "pet store" means a retail store that sells animals as pets. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1228, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 81.352 - Warning Sign Required; Rules
  (a) The owner or operator of a pet store that sells reptiles shall: (1) post a sign warning of reptile-associated salmonellosis in accordance with department...

SUBCHAPTER J TASK FORCE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

• Texas Section 81.353 - Administrative Penalty
  (a) The department may assess an administrative penalty if a person violates this subchapter or a rule adopted under this subchapter. (b) In determining the...
• Texas Section 81.401 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "task force" means the Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1099 (H.B....
• Texas Section 81.402 - Purpose And Findings
  The legislature finds that: (1) infectious diseases are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other single cause; (2) the State of Texas has a...
• Texas Section 81.403 - Task Force; Duties
  (a) The Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response is created as an advisory panel to the governor. (b) The task force shall: (1)...
• Texas Section 81.404 - Appointment Of Members; Terms
  (a) The governor may appoint members of the task force as necessary, including members from relevant state agencies, members with expertise in infectious diseases and...
• Texas Section 81.405 - Reports
  The task force may make written reports on its findings and recommendations, including legislative recommendations, to the governor and legislature. Added by Acts 2015, 84th...
• Texas Section 81.406 - Meetings
  (a) The task force shall meet at times and locations as determined by the director of the task force. (b) The task force may meet...
• Texas Section 81.407 - Administrative Support
  State agencies with members on the task force shall provide administrative support for the task force. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1099...
• Texas Section 81.408 - Reimbursement
  Task force members serve without compensation and are not entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1099 (H.B....
• Texas Section 81.409 - Infectious Disease Emergency Preparedness Facilities At Health Care-related Institutions
  (a) The commission may enter into contracts or agreements to assist in the establishment of infectious disease emergency preparedness facilities at health care-related institutions in...

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