Bill Text: TX SB1941 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address hyperemesis gravidarum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1941 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1941-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address hyperemesis gravidarum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1941 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1941-Comm_Sub.html
By: Gutierrez | S.B. No. 1941 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2021; April 1, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; | ||
April 21, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 21, 2021, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1941 | By: Hall |
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relating to a strategic plan to address hyperemesis gravidarum. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 32.047 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.047. HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) | ||
In this section, "hyperemesis gravidarum" means a disorder that | ||
causes a woman to experience extreme, persistent nausea and | ||
vomiting during pregnancy that may lead to dehydration, weight | ||
loss, or electrolyte imbalance. | ||
(b) The commission shall develop and implement a five-year | ||
strategic plan to improve the diagnosis and treatment of and raise | ||
public awareness of hyperemesis gravidarum. Not later than | ||
September 1 of the last state fiscal year in each five-year period, | ||
the commission shall develop a new strategic plan for the next five | ||
state fiscal years that begins with the following state fiscal | ||
year. | ||
(c) The strategic plan must provide strategies to: | ||
(1) increase awareness among state-administered | ||
program providers who may serve women at risk of or experiencing | ||
hyperemesis gravidarum about the prevalence and effects of | ||
hyperemesis gravidarum on outcomes for women and children; | ||
(2) establish a referral network of community-based | ||
health care providers and support services addressing hyperemesis | ||
gravidarum; | ||
(3) increase women's access to formal and informal | ||
peer support services, including access to certified peer | ||
specialists who have successfully completed additional training | ||
related to hyperemesis gravidarum; | ||
(4) raise public awareness of hyperemesis gravidarum; | ||
and | ||
(5) leverage sources of funding to support existing | ||
community-based hyperemesis gravidarum screening, referral, | ||
treatment, and support services. | ||
(d) The commission shall coordinate with the department and | ||
the statewide health coordinating council in the development of the | ||
strategic plan. | ||
(e) The commission, in consultation with the department and | ||
the statewide health coordinating council, shall annually review | ||
the strategic plan and update the plan as necessary. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2022, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall develop the initial strategic plan | ||
required by Section 32.047, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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