Bill Text: TX HB1983 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain childbirths occurring before the 39th week of gestation.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1983 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1983-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1983 | ||
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| relating to certain childbirths occurring before the 39th week of | ||
| gestation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 32.0313 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.0313. INDUCED DELIVERIES OR CESAREAN SECTIONS | ||
| BEFORE 39TH WEEK. (a) The department shall achieve cost savings | ||
| with improved outcomes by adopting and implementing quality | ||
| initiatives that are evidence-based, tested, and fully consistent | ||
| with established standards of clinical care and that are designed | ||
| to reduce the number of elective or nonmedically indicated induced | ||
| deliveries or cesarean sections performed at a hospital on a | ||
| medical assistance recipient before the 39th week of gestation. | ||
| (b) The department shall coordinate with physicians, | ||
| hospitals, managed care organizations, and the department's | ||
| billing contractor for the medical assistance program to develop a | ||
| process for collecting information regarding the number of induced | ||
| deliveries and cesarean sections described by Subsection (a) that | ||
| occur during prescribed periods. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 241.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 241.007. INDUCED DELIVERIES OR CESAREAN SECTIONS | ||
| BEFORE 39TH WEEK. A hospital that provides obstetrical services | ||
| shall collaborate with physicians providing services at the | ||
| hospital to develop quality initiatives to reduce the number of | ||
| elective or nonmedically indicated induced deliveries or cesarean | ||
| sections performed at the hospital on a woman before the 39th week | ||
| of gestation. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) The Health and Human Services Commission | ||
| shall conduct a study to assess the effects of the quality | ||
| initiatives adopted under Section 32.0313, Human Resources Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, and Section 241.007, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, on infant health and frequency of infant | ||
| admissions to neonatal intensive care units and hospital | ||
| readmissions for mothers and infants. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2012, the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall submit a written report containing the | ||
| findings of the study conducted under this section together with | ||
| the commission's recommendations to the standing committees of the | ||
| senate and house of representatives having primary jurisdiction | ||
| over public health. | ||
| SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1983 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1983 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
