By: Thierry, et al. H.B. No. 852
(Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst, et al.)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023;
April 18, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 8, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
May 8, 2023, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 852 By: Kolkhorst
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the Texas Maternal Mortality and
Morbidity Review Committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 34.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The review committee is a multidisciplinary advisory
committee within the department and is composed of the following 23
[17] members:
(1) 21 [15] members appointed by the commissioner as
follows:
(A) four physicians specializing in obstetrics,
at least one of whom is a maternal fetal medicine specialist;
(B) one certified nurse-midwife;
(C) one registered nurse;
(D) one nurse specializing in labor and delivery;
(E) one physician specializing in family
practice;
(F) one physician specializing in psychiatry;
(G) one physician specializing in pathology;
(H) one epidemiologist, biostatistician, or
researcher of pregnancy-related deaths;
(I) one social worker or social service provider;
(J) two [one] community members with experience
[advocate] in a relevant health care field, including a field
involving the analysis of health care data, one of whom must
represent an urban area of this state and one of whom must represent
a rural area of this state;
(K) one medical examiner or coroner responsible
for recording deaths; [and]
(L) one physician specializing in critical care;
(M) one physician specializing in emergency
care;
(N) one physician specializing in cardiology;
(O) one physician specializing in
anesthesiology;
(P) one physician specializing in oncology; and
(Q) one representative of a managed care
organization;
(2) a representative of the department's family and
community health programs; and
(3) the state epidemiologist for the department or the
epidemiologist's designee.
SECTION 2. Section 34.003(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Review committee members appointed by the commissioner
serve staggered six-year terms, with one-third or as near as
possible to one-third of the members' terms [of four or five
members, as appropriate,] expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered
year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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