85R11884 LED-D
By: Farrar H.B. No. 3696
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to birth record information included in certain health
care data collection.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 108.002(6), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(6) "Data" means information collected under Section
108.0065, 108.0066, or 108.009 in the form initially received.
SECTION 2. Chapter 108, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 108.0066 to read as follows:
Sec. 108.0066. BIRTH RECORD DATA. (a) In this section,
"birth record data" means the data associated with the birth of an
infant, including:
(1) information from the mother's prenatal care
visits;
(2) the number of previous live births or miscarriages
of the mother;
(3) the gestational age of the infant;
(4) the infant's birth weight;
(5) whether the infant is breast-fed in the hospital;
and
(6) whether the mother smoked during the pregnancy.
(b) The department shall collect birth record data under
this chapter. The department may coordinate the collection of the
data with local registrars and the vital statistics unit of the
department. If the department requires additional birth record
data, a hospital shall provide to the department the data required
by the department in the form required by the department.
(c) Dissemination of data collected under this section is
subject to Sections 108.010, 108.011, 108.012, 108.013, 108.014,
and 108.0141.
(d) The department shall include the birth record data
collected under this section with hospital inpatient public use
data. The department shall cross-reference the birth record data of
an infant with the appropriate hospital inpatient data for the
patient giving birth to the infant to:
(1) increase the accuracy of the data;
(2) reduce incomplete data; and
(3) support research of maternal and newborn deaths
and complications.
SECTION 3. Not later than June 1, 2018, the Department of
State Health Services shall:
(1) collect birth record data described by Section
108.0066, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, for the
period beginning January 1, 2010, through the second quarter of the
year 2017;
(2) cross-reference the birth record data described by
Subdivision (1) with the appropriate hospital inpatient public use
data as described by Section 108.0066(d), Health and Safety Code,
as added by this Act; and
(3) incorporate the data described by Subdivisions (1)
and (2) into the public use data provided by the department.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.