Bill Text: TX HB225 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the membership of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Referred to Public Health [HB225 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB225-Introduced.html
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| By: Ortega | H.B. No. 225 | |
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| relating to the membership of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity | ||
| Task Force. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 34.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The task force is a multidisciplinary advisory | ||
| committee within the department and is composed of the following 16 | ||
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| (A) four physicians specializing in obstetrics, | ||
| at least one of whom is a maternal fetal medicine specialist; | ||
| (B) one certified nurse-midwife; | ||
| (C) one registered nurse; | ||
| (D) one nurse specializing in labor and delivery; | ||
| (E) one physician specializing in family | ||
| practice; | ||
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| psychiatry; | ||
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| pathology; | ||
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| or researcher of pregnancy-related deaths; | ||
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| provider; | ||
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| field; and | ||
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| responsible for recording deaths; | ||
| (2) a representative of the department's family and | ||
| community health programs; and | ||
| (3) the state epidemiologist for the department or the | ||
| epidemiologist's designee. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
