Bill Text: TX HB305 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the screening of certain women for substance use and postpartum depression.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-25 - Referred to Public Health [HB305 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB305-Introduced.html
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By: Ortega | H.B. No. 305 |
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relating to the screening of certain women for substance use and | ||
postpartum depression. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. SUBSTANCE USE AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION SCREENING | ||
Sec. 32.081. SUBSTANCE USE AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION | ||
SCREENING OF CERTAIN WOMEN. (a) A physician or other person | ||
authorized by law to attend a pregnant woman or woman who has been | ||
pregnant at any time during the preceding year shall screen the | ||
woman for substance use and postpartum depression. | ||
(b) The commission shall make available to physicians and | ||
other persons required to conduct a screening under Subsection (a) | ||
information that includes: | ||
(1) guidance regarding the process for verbally | ||
screening a pregnant woman for substance use or a woman who has been | ||
pregnant for postpartum depression using a standardized and | ||
validated screening tool; and | ||
(2) a list of substance use and postpartum depression | ||
treatment resources in each geographic region of this state. | ||
(c) A physician or other person described by Subsection (a) | ||
is not required to comply with that subsection if the physician or | ||
other person determines compliance is not possible or would | ||
otherwise be inappropriate. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than June 1, 2018, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall make the information described by | ||
Section 32.081, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, | ||
available to physicians and other persons authorized by law to | ||
attend a pregnant woman or a woman who has been pregnant at any time | ||
during the preceding year. | ||
(b) A physician or other person described by Subsection (a) | ||
of this section is not required to conduct the screenings described | ||
by Section 32.081, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, | ||
before December 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |