Texas House approves plan to create Office for Health Equity Eli Kirshbaum | May 4, 2021
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Representative Garnet Coleman’s bill to establish an Office for Health Equity in the state of Texas passed the House with an 86-56 vote on Tuesday. SB 4139 co-sponsored by three other Democratic House members would create the office in order to promote equitable health outcomes for minority communities throughout the state in the wake of COVID-19.
Coleman described the bill while introducing it in the House Public Health Committee in early April:
“It became very clear during COVID-19 that there was a problem. And we’ve always known there have been disparities in health, and not necessarily knowing why, it could be environmental, it could be something else. But in this case it meant death. So, particularly among communities of color, there was a wide disparity between, particularly [among] African American men, as well as Latinos and others who had und