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.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 559 By: Perry
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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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