Bill Text: TX HB247 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to pregnancy information on death certificates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-26 - Left pending in committee [HB247 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB247-Introduced.html
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| By: Ortega | H.B. No. 247 | |
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| relating to pregnancy information on death certificates. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-2) In prescribing the form and contents of death | ||
| certificates, the department shall require each death certificate | ||
| to indicate whether a female decedent was pregnant at the time of | ||
| death or was pregnant at any time in the year preceding the | ||
| decedent's death. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2018, the Department of | ||
| State Health Services shall revise and make available the forms | ||
| required by Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a death certificate filed on or after April 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
