TX SB641

Defines "health literacy" as an individual's capacity to find, understand, and use health information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions

Requires the statewide health coordinating council to develop a long-range plan for improving health literacy in Texas, with mandatory updates at least every two years

Mandates the council study the economic impact of low health literacy on state health programs and health insurance, identify risk factors, examine methods for practitioners to address patient health literacy, and evaluate strategies for expanding plain language patient instructions

Requires submission of the health literacy plan to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house, and all legislators by November 1 of each even-numbered year

Amends the state health plan to include the prevalence of low health literacy as a major statewide health concern and requires strategies for improving health literacy to achieve better cost-effectiveness and patient outcomes