By: Orr H.B. No. 4435
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a maternal health training program for certain health
care providers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 34A to read as follows:
CHAPTER 34A. MATERNAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR HEALTH CARE
PROVIDERS
Sec. 34A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Health care provider" and "maternal morbidity"
have the meanings assigned by Section 34.001.
(2) "Review committee" means the Texas Maternal
Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee established under Chapter
34.
(3) "TexasAIM" means the program established by the
department in collaboration with the Alliance for Innovation on
Maternal Health and the Texas Hospital Association to assist health
care providers with implementing maternal safety projects and
decreasing incidents of preventable maternal death and severe
maternal morbidity by applying best practices for maternal safety
and improving maternal health care.
(4) "Training program" means the maternal health
training program established under Section 34A.002.
Sec. 34A.002. MATERNAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM. (a) The
department shall develop and implement a training program for
health care providers providing health care services to maternal
patients in this state.
(b) The training program must ensure health care providers
providing health care services to maternal patients are equipped to
deliver consistent, superior health care services.
(c) The department shall collaborate with the review
committee to establish the training program curriculum. The
training program curriculum must include:
(1) evidence-based protocols for obstetric
emergencies;
(2) TexasAIM maternal safety best practices for
specific maternal and postpartum conditions;
(3) maternal safety simulations; and
(4) other information the review committee recommends
regarding best practices for reducing maternal mortality and
morbidity rates.
(d) The executive commissioner by rule shall require health
care providers providing health care services to maternal patients
to participate in the training program.
Sec. 34A.003. RULES. The executive commissioner shall
adopt rules as necessary to establish and implement the training
program under this chapter, including rules regarding monitoring
health care provider compliance.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt the rules required by Chapter 34A,
Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.