Tex. Health & Safety Code § 120.101 · Subchapter C. BORDER HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN
SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM PLANS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The task force shall make recommendations to the commissioner for short-term and long-term border health improvement plans. The short-term plan shall identify health objectives proposed to be accomplished before the fourth anniversary of the date the plan is adopted. The long-term plan shall identify health objectives proposed to be accomplished before the ninth anniversary of the date the plan is adopted.
(b) The commissioner shall review the task force's recommendations and, based on those recommendations, recommend short-term and long-term border health improvement plans to the executive commissioner, identifying specific health objectives that may be implemented under existing law.
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt short-term and long-term border health improvement plans and direct the department to implement the portions of the plans that may be implemented within existing appropriations under existing law.
(d) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year, the executive commissioner shall submit a report detailing the actions taken by the task force. The report must include:
(1) the status of all projects and activities involving the health issues described under Section 120.051(a)(3);
(2) the funding for the expenditures; and
(3) recommendations for legislation necessary to implement the short-term and long-term border health improvement plans.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 754 (S.B. 1680), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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