Bill Text: TX HB1255 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to patient records regarding maternal death.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-05 - Considered in Calendars [HB1255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1255-Comm_Sub.html
| 86R16703 JG-D | |||
| By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 1255 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1255: | |||
| By: Coleman | C.S.H.B. No. 1255 | ||
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| relating to patient records regarding maternal death. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 34.008, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) Not later than the 30th business day after receiving a | ||
| request from the department for records regarding a | ||
| pregnancy-related death for a specific patient, a hospital, | ||
| birthing center, or other custodian of the records shall submit the | ||
| records to the department. A request made under this subsection to | ||
| a hospital or birthing center must be limited to a patient's medical | ||
| records. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
