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Relating to health professional continuing education to address communicable and other diseases in border counties.
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB1120, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: a negative impact of ($453,078) through the biennium ending August 31, 2021.
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of
funds to implement the provisions of the bill. The Department of State Health Services is required
to implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that
purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the department
may, but is not required to, implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations available
for that purpose.
SB 1120 would require the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to provide certain health care professionals with continuing education designed to reduce the incidence of communicable or other diseases in counties adjacent to the international border with Mexico. Such continuing education would address the diagnosis and treatment of certain communicable and other diseases; methods for increasing pediatric and adult immunization rates; strategies for improving health care operations related to public health; and any other matter that DSHS determines assists with public health challenges.
Texas Action remains neutral on SB 1120 because it does not affect our liberty principles.
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