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| 1 | 1 | 85S10894 JG-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Ortega H.B. No. 247 | |
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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to pregnancy information on death certificates. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is | |
| 10 | 10 | amended by adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | (a-2) In prescribing the form and contents of death | |
| 12 | 12 | certificates, the department shall require each death certificate | |
| 13 | 13 | to indicate whether a female decedent was pregnant at the time of | |
| 14 | 14 | death or was pregnant at any time in the year preceding the | |
| 15 | 15 | decedent's death. | |
| 16 | 16 | SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2018, the Department of | |
| 17 | 17 | State Health Services shall revise and make available the forms | |
| 18 | 18 | required by Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, as amended by | |
| 19 | 19 | this Act. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | |
| 21 | 21 | a death certificate filed on or after April 1, 2018. | |
| 22 | 22 | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 23 | 23 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 24 | 24 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 25 | 25 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 26 | 26 | Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | |
| 27 | 27 | legislative session. |