Bill Text: TX HB2695 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to information regarding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB2695 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2695-Introduced.html
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| By: White | H.B. No. 2695 | |
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| relating to information regarding fetal alcohol spectrum | ||
| disorders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter X to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER X. INFORMATION REGARDING FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM | ||
| DISORDERS | ||
| Sec. 161.701. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder" means one of a | ||
| group of conditions that can occur in a person who is exposed to | ||
| alcohol in utero. | ||
| (2) "Health care provider" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 34.001. | ||
| Sec. 161.702. DUTY OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. (a) At the | ||
| time of initial contact, a health care provider who provides care to | ||
| an expectant mother or who initially diagnoses a child with a fetal | ||
| alcohol spectrum disorder shall provide information regarding | ||
| fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to: | ||
| (1) expectant parents; or | ||
| (2) a parent of a child who receives a diagnosis of a | ||
| fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. | ||
| (b) The information described by Subsection (a) must be | ||
| current and evidence-based and must have been reviewed by medical | ||
| experts and state or national fetal alcohol spectrum disorder | ||
| organizations. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, this section does not | ||
| impose a standard of care or create an obligation or duty that | ||
| provides a basis for a cause of action against a health care | ||
| provider. A health care provider may not be held civilly or | ||
| criminally liable for failing to provide information as required by | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
