Bill Text: TX HB713 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exception to certain reporting requirements for health care providers reviewing selected cases for the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB713 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB713-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 713 | |
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| relating to an exception to certain reporting requirements for | ||
| health care providers reviewing selected cases for the Texas | ||
| Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 34.0085 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 34.0085. CASE INFORMATION EXCEPTED FROM PROFESSIONAL | ||
| REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Notwithstanding any other law and for | ||
| purposes of this chapter, a health care provider, including a | ||
| nurse, who during the review of information relevant to a case | ||
| selected for review under this chapter learns of conduct related to | ||
| the provider's profession that is subject to a reporting | ||
| requirement is exempt from that reporting requirement for the | ||
| reviewed information. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 September 1, 2025. | ||
