Bill Text: TX SB559 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to patient records regarding maternal death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-22 - House passage as amended reported [SB559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB559-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to patient records regarding maternal death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-22 - House passage as amended reported [SB559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB559-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles | S.B. No. 559 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2019; February 21, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; March 14, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
March 14, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 559 | By: Perry |
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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. | ||
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