Bill Text: TX HB3123 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a report concerning health care providers participating in the breast and cervical cancer services program, the family planning program, and the Texas women's health program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Public Health [HB3123 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3123-Introduced.html
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| By: Farrar | H.B. No. 3123 | |
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| relating to a report concerning health care providers participating | ||
| in the breast and cervical cancer services program, the family | ||
| planning program, and the Texas women's health program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.02222 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.02222. REPORT ON PROVIDERS PARTICIPATING IN | ||
| WOMEN'S HEALTH PROGRAMS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Breast and cervical cancer services program" | ||
| means a program operated by the commission that provides screening, | ||
| diagnostic, and other services related to breast and cervical | ||
| cancer to women in this state. | ||
| (2) "Family planning program" means a program operated | ||
| by the commission that provides health care and core family | ||
| planning services to individuals in this state. | ||
| (3) "Texas women's health program" means a program | ||
| operated by the commission that is substantially similar to the | ||
| demonstration project operated under former Section 32.0248, Human | ||
| Resources Code, and that is intended to expand access to preventive | ||
| health and family planning services for women in this state. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 31 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the commission shall prepare and submit a report to the legislature | ||
| on the registered provider locations participating in the breast | ||
| and cervical cancer services program, the family planning program, | ||
| and the Texas women's health program. The report must: | ||
| (1) cover the period beginning June 1 occurring three | ||
| years preceding the year in which the report is due and ending May | ||
| 31 occurring the year before the year in which the report is due; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) include, for each registered provider location | ||
| during the period covered by the report: | ||
| (A) the number of physicians participating in | ||
| each program at that location; | ||
| (B) the number of individuals seen by each | ||
| physician participating in a program at that location and the | ||
| program in which the individuals were treated; and | ||
| (C) the number of times a specific individual was | ||
| treated at that location by a participating physician in each | ||
| program. | ||
| (c) If the breast and cervical cancer services program, the | ||
| family planning program, or the Texas women's health program is | ||
| consolidated with another program or otherwise modified, the | ||
| commission shall include in the report under Subsection (b) the | ||
| required information for each successor program that provides the | ||
| same or similar services. | ||
| (d) The information provided under Subsection (b) may not | ||
| include any personally identifying information about an | ||
| individual. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 31, 2018, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall provide to the legislature the | ||
| initial report for the period of June 1, 2016, through May 31, 2017, | ||
| as required by Section 531.02222, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, notwithstanding Section 531.02222(b)(1), Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
