81R8051 JSC-D
By: Bonnen H.B. No. 1510
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to including information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
in a resource pamphlet for parents of newborn children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 161.501(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A hospital, birthing center, physician, nurse midwife,
or midwife who provides prenatal care to a pregnant woman during
gestation or at delivery of an infant shall:
(1) provide the woman and the father of the infant, if
possible, or another adult caregiver for the infant, with a
resource pamphlet that includes:
(A) a list of the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of professional organizations that provide postpartum
counseling and assistance to parents relating to postpartum
depression and other emotional trauma associated with pregnancy and
parenting;
(B) information regarding the prevention of
shaken baby syndrome including:
(i) techniques for coping with anger caused
by a crying baby;
(ii) different methods for preventing a
person from shaking a newborn, infant, or other young child;
(iii) the dangerous effects of shaking a
newborn, infant, or other young child; and
(iv) the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome
and who to contact, as recommended by the American Academy of
Pediatrics, if a parent suspects or knows that a baby has been
shaken in order to receive prompt medical treatment;
(C) a list of diseases for which a child is
required by state law to be immunized and the appropriate schedule
for the administration of those immunizations; [and]
(D) the appropriate schedule for follow-up
procedures for newborn screening; and
(E) information regarding Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome, including current recommendations for infant sleeping
conditions to lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome;
(2) document in the woman's record that the woman
received the information described in Subdivision (1); and
(3) retain the documentation for at least five years
in the hospital's, birthing center's, physician's, nurse midwife's,
or midwife's records.
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2010, the Department of
State Health Services shall update the resource pamphlet on the
department's website to include the information about Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome required by Section 161.501, Health and Safety Code,
as amended by this Act.
SECTION 3. A hospital, birthing center, physician, nurse
midwife, or midwife who provides prenatal care to a pregnant woman
during gestation or at delivery of an infant is not required to
provide the updated brochure containing the information about
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome required by Section 161.501, Health
and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, before March 1, 2010.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.