Bill Text: TX HB2255 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to newborn and infant hearing screening results and the provision of information following a screening.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-21 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2255-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2255 |
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relating to newborn and infant hearing screening results and the | ||
provision of information following a screening. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 47.0031(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) If a newborn or an infant does not pass the screening in | ||
a follow-up hearing screening, the program that performed the | ||
follow-up hearing screening on the newborn or infant shall: | ||
(1) provide the screening results to: | ||
(A) the newborn's or infant's parents [ |
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(B) with the prior written consent of the | ||
newborn's or infant's parents, the primary statewide resource | ||
center established under Section 30.051, Education Code; | ||
(2) assist in scheduling a diagnostic audiological | ||
evaluation for the newborn or infant, consistent with the most | ||
current guidelines in the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing | ||
Position Statement, or refer the newborn or infant to a licensed | ||
audiologist who provides diagnostic audiological evaluations for | ||
newborns or infants that are consistent with the most current | ||
guidelines in the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Position | ||
Statement; and | ||
(3) refer the newborn or infant to early childhood | ||
intervention services and the primary statewide resource center | ||
established under Section 30.051, Education Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 47.005, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection | ||
(a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A birthing facility that operates a program shall | ||
simultaneously distribute to the parents of each newborn or infant | ||
who is screened: | ||
(1) the screening results; and | ||
(2) educational and informational materials that are | ||
standardized by the department regarding: | ||
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(B) available public resources, including: | ||
(i) early childhood intervention services | ||
developed under Chapter 73, Human Resources Code; | ||
(ii) the primary statewide resource center | ||
established under Section 30.051, Education Code; and | ||
(iii) contact information for Texas Early | ||
Hearing Detection and Intervention. | ||
(a-1) The department shall make available to the public on | ||
request the educational and informational materials described by | ||
Subsection (a)(2). | ||
(b) A birthing facility that operates a program shall report | ||
screening results to: | ||
(1) the parents; | ||
(2) the newborn's or infant's attending physician, | ||
primary care physician, or other applicable health care provider; | ||
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(3) the department; and | ||
(4) the primary statewide resource center established | ||
under Section 30.051, Education Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 47.008(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop | ||
guidelines to protect the confidentiality of patients in accordance | ||
with Chapter 159, Occupations Code, and require the written consent | ||
of a parent or guardian of a patient before any individually | ||
identifying information is provided to the department or the | ||
primary statewide resource center established under Section | ||
30.051, Education Code, as set out in this chapter. The department | ||
and center shall permit a parent or guardian at any time to withdraw | ||
information provided to the department or center under this | ||
chapter. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2255 was passed by the House on April | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2255 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
8, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |