Bill Text: MS HB1576 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Birthing centers; delete requirement to have written transfer agreement with a hospital in order to be licensed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2025-02-04 - Died In Committee [HB1576 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2025-HB1576-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Hines
House Bill 1576
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-77-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT FOR BIRTHING CENTERS TO OBTAIN A WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH A HOSPITAL THAT HAS AN ORGANIZED OBSTETRICAL SERVICE AND PROVIDES SUCH SERVICE ON A CONTINUING BASIS, STATING THAT THE HOSPITAL AGREES TO ACCEPT FROM THE BIRTHING CENTER SUCH CASES AS MAY NEED TO BE REFERRED FROM THE BIRTHING CENTER; TO REQUIRE LICENSED BIRTHING CENTERS TO ESTABLISH A WRITTEN TRANSFER PLAN THAT INVOLVES APPROPRIATE LEVELS OF CARE WHEN CLIENT CONDITIONS REQUIRE IT, AND TO PERIODICALLY PROVIDE A LOCAL HOSPITAL WITH WRITTEN NOTICE OF ITS OPERATIONS AND PATIENT POPULATION SERVED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-77-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-77-7. * * *
A licensed birthing center shall establish a written transfer plan that
involves appropriate levels of care when client conditions require it, and must
periodically provide a local hospital with written notice of its operations and
patient population served.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.
