Bill Text: TX SB1599 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to maternal mortality reporting and investigation information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1599 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1599-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1599 | ||
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| relating to maternal mortality reporting and investigation | ||
| information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 1001, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter J to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER J. MATERNAL MORTALITY REPORTING AND INVESTIGATION | ||
| INFORMATION | ||
| Sec. 1001.241. MATERNAL MORTALITY REPORTING AND | ||
| INVESTIGATION INFORMATION. (a) The department shall post on the | ||
| department's Internet website information regarding the systematic | ||
| protocol for pregnancy-related death investigations and the best | ||
| practices for reporting pregnancy-related deaths to the medical | ||
| examiner or justice of the peace of each county, as applicable. | ||
| (b) The information provided under Subsection (a) must | ||
| include guidelines for: | ||
| (1) determining when a comprehensive toxicology | ||
| screening should be performed on a person whose death was related to | ||
| pregnancy; | ||
| (2) determining when a death should be reported to or | ||
| investigated by a medical examiner or justice of the peace under | ||
| Chapter 49, Code of Criminal Procedure; and | ||
| (3) correctly completing the death certificate of a | ||
| person whose death was related to pregnancy. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as | ||
| necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1599 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1599 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
