Bill Text: TX HB3626 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a maternal health care workforce campaign.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Health Care Reform, Select [HB3626 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3626-Introduced.html
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By: Lalani | H.B. No. 3626 |
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relating to a maternal health care workforce campaign. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 32, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 32.0215 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0215. MATERNAL HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE CAMPAIGN. (a) | ||
In this section, "maternal health care professional" means a health | ||
care professional who is certified or licensed in this state to | ||
provide maternal health care, including a doula and an individual | ||
who provides nonmedical support during pregnancy, labor, delivery, | ||
and the postpartum period. | ||
(b) Using available resources, the department shall develop | ||
and implement a public outreach campaign to increase the number of | ||
maternal health care professionals in this state's health care | ||
workforce to improve access to maternal health care in rural areas | ||
of this state and other areas with a shortage of maternal health | ||
care professionals. The department shall design the campaign to: | ||
(1) facilitate the implementation of trauma-informed | ||
care training programs for all maternal health care professionals; | ||
(2) prioritize continuing education for maternal | ||
health care professionals; | ||
(3) facilitate the implementation of training | ||
programs to increase the number of maternal health care | ||
professionals in rural areas of this state and other areas with a | ||
shortage of maternal health care professionals; | ||
(4) increase the overall capacity of the maternal | ||
health care workforce in this state, including by investing in | ||
maternal health care equipment and locations that provide maternal | ||
health care; | ||
(5) facilitate the implementation of training | ||
programs to increase in the maternal health care workforce the | ||
number of health care professionals who are members of racial or | ||
ethnic minority groups; and | ||
(6) facilitate the implementation of maternal health | ||
care programs to improve access to maternal health care and provide | ||
services to women of underserved racial or ethnic minority groups. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Department of State Health Services shall develop | ||
and implement the maternal health care workforce campaign required | ||
by Section 32.0215, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |