Bill Text: TX SB436 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 436 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to statewide initiatives to improve maternal and newborn health for women with opioid use disorder.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB436 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB436-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 436




	AN ACT
	relating to statewide initiatives to improve maternal and newborn
	health for women with opioid use disorder.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Health and Safety Code, is amended by
	adding Section 34.0158 to read as follows:
	Sec. 34.0158. OPIOID USE DISORDER MATERNAL AND NEWBORN
	HEALTH INITIATIVES. (a) The department, in collaboration with the
	task force, shall develop and implement initiatives to:
	(1) improve screening procedures to better identify
	and care for women with opioid use disorder;
	(2) improve continuity of care for women with opioid
	use disorder by ensuring that health care providers refer the women
	to appropriate treatment and verify the women receive the
	treatment;
	(3) optimize health care provided to pregnant women
	with opioid use disorder;
	(4) optimize health care provided to newborns with
	neonatal abstinence syndrome by encouraging maternal engagement;
	(5) increase access to medication-assisted treatment
	for women with opioid use disorder during pregnancy and the
	postpartum period; and
	(6) prevent opioid use disorder by reducing the number
	of opioid drugs prescribed before, during, and following a
	delivery.
	(b) Before implementing the initiatives described by
	Subsection (a), the department may conduct a limited pilot program
	in one or more geographic areas of this state to implement the
	initiatives at hospitals licensed under Chapter 241 with expertise
	in caring for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome or related
	conditions. The pilot program must conclude not later than March 1,
	2020. This subsection expires September 1, 2021.
	(c) Using existing resources, the department, in
	collaboration with the task force, shall promote and facilitate the
	use among health care providers in this state of maternal health
	informational materials, including tools and procedures related to
	best practices in maternal health to improve obstetrical care for
	women with opioid use disorder.
	SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2020, the Department
	of State Health Services shall prepare and submit to the presiding
	officers of the standing committees of each house of the
	legislature with primary jurisdiction over public health a written
	report that evaluates the success of the initiatives developed and
	implemented under Section 34.0158, Health and Safety Code, as added
	by this Act, and, if applicable, the pilot program conducted under
	that section. The report submitted under this section may be
	submitted with the report required under Section 34.0156, Health
	and Safety Code.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2019.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 436 passed the Senate on
	April 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 436 passed the House on
	May 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, one
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor