Bill Text: TX HB1428 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program to support the participation by certain health care providers in TexasAIM.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Public Health [HB1428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1428-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 1428 | |
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| relating to a grant program to support the participation by certain | ||
| health care providers in TexasAIM. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. TEXASAIM GRANT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 32.061. TEXASAIM GRANT PROGRAM. (a) In this section, | ||
| "TexasAIM" means the program established by the department in | ||
| collaboration with the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health | ||
| and the Texas Hospital Association to assist health care providers | ||
| in implementing maternal safety projects and decreasing incidents | ||
| of preventable maternal death and severe maternal morbidity by | ||
| applying best practices for maternal safety and improving maternal | ||
| health care. | ||
| (b) The department shall establish a grant program to | ||
| provide funding to health care providers who are located in rural or | ||
| medically underserved areas for travel and attendance costs | ||
| associated with attending TexasAIM collaborative learning | ||
| sessions. From available money and any additional money | ||
| appropriated for this purpose, the department shall award grants as | ||
| provided by this section. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish | ||
| eligibility criteria for awarding grants under this section. The | ||
| rules must require the department to consider: | ||
| (1) a geographical area's need for implementing | ||
| TexasAIM and the extent to which the grant would assist health care | ||
| providers in the area in meeting the identified need; | ||
| (2) the availability of other funding sources to meet | ||
| the identified need; and | ||
| (3) the participation by health care providers in | ||
| TexasAIM in the area. | ||
| (d) The department may approve grants according to | ||
| department rules. A grant awarded under this section is governed by | ||
| Chapter 783, Government Code, and rules adopted under that chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt the rules necessary to implement Section 32.061, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
