Bill Text: TX SB1941 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1941 | ||
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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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1941 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 3, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1941 passed the House on | ||
| May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 40, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
