Bill Text: TX HB2574 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to increasing awareness of the danger of heatstroke for a child left unattended in a motor vehicle.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2574 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2574-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2574 |
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relating to increasing awareness of the danger of heatstroke for a | ||
child left unattended in a motor vehicle. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.501(a), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
amended by S.B. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2015, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A hospital, birthing center, physician, nurse midwife, | ||
or midwife who provides prenatal care to a pregnant woman during | ||
gestation or at delivery of an infant shall: | ||
(1) provide the woman and the father of the infant, if | ||
possible, or another adult caregiver for the infant, with a | ||
resource pamphlet that includes: | ||
(A) a list of the names, addresses, and phone | ||
numbers of professional organizations that provide postpartum | ||
counseling and assistance to parents relating to postpartum | ||
depression and other emotional trauma associated with pregnancy and | ||
parenting; | ||
(B) information regarding the prevention of | ||
shaken baby syndrome including: | ||
(i) techniques for coping with anger caused | ||
by a crying baby; | ||
(ii) different methods for preventing a | ||
person from shaking a newborn, infant, or other young child; | ||
(iii) the dangerous effects of shaking a | ||
newborn, infant, or other young child; and | ||
(iv) the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome | ||
and who to contact, as recommended by the American Academy of | ||
Pediatrics, if a parent suspects or knows that a baby has been | ||
shaken in order to receive prompt medical treatment; | ||
(C) a list of diseases for which a child is | ||
required by state law to be immunized and the appropriate schedule | ||
for the administration of those immunizations; | ||
(D) the appropriate schedule for follow-up | ||
procedures for newborn screening; | ||
(E) information regarding sudden infant death | ||
syndrome, including current recommendations for infant sleeping | ||
conditions to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome; [ |
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(F) educational information in both English and | ||
Spanish on pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine to | ||
protect against pertussis, including information on the Centers for | ||
Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that parents receive | ||
Tdap during the postpartum period to protect newborns from the | ||
transmission of pertussis; and | ||
(G) the danger of heatstroke for a child left | ||
unattended in a motor vehicle; | ||
(2) if the woman is a recipient of medical assistance | ||
under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, provide the woman and the | ||
father of the infant, if possible, or another adult caregiver with a | ||
resource guide that includes information in both English and | ||
Spanish relating to the development, health, and safety of a child | ||
from birth until age five, including information relating to: | ||
(A) selecting and interacting with a primary | ||
health care practitioner and establishing a "medical home" for the | ||
child; | ||
(B) dental care; | ||
(C) effective parenting; | ||
(D) child safety; | ||
(E) the importance of reading to a child; | ||
(F) expected developmental milestones; | ||
(G) health care resources available in the state; | ||
(H) selecting appropriate child care; and | ||
(I) other resources available in the state; | ||
(3) document in the woman's record that the woman | ||
received the resource pamphlet described in Subdivision (1) and the | ||
resource guide described in Subdivision (2), if applicable; and | ||
(4) retain the documentation for at least five years | ||
in the hospital's, birthing center's, physician's, nurse midwife's, | ||
or midwife's records. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2015, the | ||
Department of State Health Services shall make the informational | ||
materials required by Section 161.501(a)(1), Health and Safety | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, available on its Internet website. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 161.501(a)(1)(G), Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a facility is not required to | ||
comply with that provision until January 1, 2016. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2574 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2574 on May 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2574 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |