Bill Text: TX HB1292 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to statewide initiatives to improve maternal and newborn health for women with opioid use disorder.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Public Health [HB1292 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1292-Introduced.html
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| By: Price | H.B. No. 1292 | |
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| relating to statewide initiatives to improve maternal and newborn | ||
| health for women with opioid use disorder. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 34.0158 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 34.0158. OPIOID USE DISORDER MATERNAL AND NEWBORN | ||
| HEALTH INITIATIVES. (a) The department, in collaboration with the | ||
| task force, shall develop and implement initiatives to: | ||
| (1) improve screening procedures to better identify | ||
| and care for women with opioid use disorder; | ||
| (2) improve continuity of care for women with opioid | ||
| use disorder by ensuring that health care providers refer the women | ||
| to appropriate treatment and verify the women receive the | ||
| treatment; | ||
| (3) optimize health care provided to pregnant women | ||
| with opioid use disorder; | ||
| (4) optimize health care provided to newborns with | ||
| neonatal abstinence syndrome by encouraging maternal engagement; | ||
| (5) increase access to medication-assisted treatment | ||
| for women with opioid use disorder during pregnancy and the | ||
| postpartum period; and | ||
| (6) prevent opioid use disorder by reducing the number | ||
| of opioid drugs prescribed before, during, and following a | ||
| delivery. | ||
| (b) Before implementing the initiatives described by | ||
| Subsection (a), the department may conduct a limited pilot program | ||
| in one or more geographic areas of this state to implement the | ||
| initiatives at hospitals licensed under Chapter 241 with expertise | ||
| in caring for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome or related | ||
| conditions. The pilot program must conclude not later than March 1, | ||
| 2020. This subsection expires September 1, 2021. | ||
| (c) Using existing resources, the department, in | ||
| collaboration with the task force, shall promote and facilitate the | ||
| use among health care providers in this state of maternal health | ||
| informational materials, including tools and procedures related to | ||
| best practices in maternal health to improve obstetrical care for | ||
| women with opioid use disorder. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2020, the Department | ||
| of State Health Services shall prepare and submit to the presiding | ||
| officers of the standing committees of each house of the | ||
| legislature with primary jurisdiction over public health a written | ||
| report that evaluates the success of the initiatives developed and | ||
| implemented under Section 34.0158, Health and Safety Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, and, if applicable, the pilot program conducted under | ||
| that section. The report submitted under this section may be | ||
| submitted with the report required under Section 34.0156, Health | ||
| and Safety Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
