Bill Text: TX HB606 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the benefits of prenatal surgical procedures to treat birth defects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB606 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB606-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 606 | ||
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| relating to a study on the benefits of prenatal surgical procedures | ||
| to treat birth defects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) In this Act: | ||
| (1) "Birth defect" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 87.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (b) The commission shall conduct a study to evaluate the | ||
| benefits of prenatal surgical procedures to treat birth defects. | ||
| The procedures studied must include: | ||
| (1) fetoscopic placental laser ablation; | ||
| (2) maternal-fetal surgery; and | ||
| (3) any other type of prenatal surgical procedure that | ||
| is or becomes the standard of practice for treating a birth defect. | ||
| (c) The study must analyze: | ||
| (1) the difference in average total cost to the | ||
| Medicaid program, private health benefit plan coverage, and | ||
| individuals and other payors between conducting a prenatal surgical | ||
| procedure and a postnatal procedure to treat a birth defect, | ||
| including any continuing treatments needed after either procedure; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) any improvement in survival rates, long-term | ||
| outcomes, and quality of life for children with birth defects | ||
| following a prenatal surgical procedure as compared to a postnatal | ||
| procedure to treat a birth defect. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2016, the commission shall | ||
| submit a written report on the results of the study to the governor, | ||
| lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, House | ||
| Committee on Public Health, and Senate Committee on Health and | ||
| Human Services. | ||
| (e) This Act expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 606 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 606 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
