H.B. No. 852
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the House on April
14, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 127, Nays 16, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 852 on May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 5, 1
present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
1.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor