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1	2		By: Perry S.B. No. 2357
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
3		-	first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
4		-	April 28, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5		-	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 2025,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2357 By: Perry
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13	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
14	8		AN ACT
15	9		relating to a maternal health training program for certain health
16	10		care providers.
17	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
18	12		SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
19	13		amended by adding Chapter 34A to read as follows:
20	14		CHAPTER 34A. MATERNAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR HEALTH CARE
21	15		PROVIDERS
22	16		Sec. 34A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
23	17		(1) "Health care provider" and "maternal morbidity"
24	18		have the meanings assigned by Section 34.001.
25	19		(2) "Review committee" means the Texas Maternal
26	20		Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee established under Chapter
27	21		34.
28	22		(3) "TexasAIM" means the program established by the
29	23		department in collaboration with the Alliance for Innovation on
30	24		Maternal Health and the Texas Hospital Association to assist health
31	25		care providers with implementing maternal safety projects and
32	26		decreasing incidents of preventable maternal death and severe
33	27		maternal morbidity by applying best practices for maternal safety
34	28		and improving maternal health care.
35	29		(4) "Training program" means the maternal health
36	30		training program established under Section 34A.002.
37	31		Sec. 34A.002. MATERNAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM. (a) The
38	32		department shall develop and implement a training program for
39	33		health care providers providing health care services to maternal
40	34		patients in this state.
41	35		(b) The training program must ensure health care providers
42	36		providing health care services to maternal patients are equipped to
43	37		deliver consistent, superior health care services.
44	38		(c) The department shall collaborate with the review
45	39		committee to establish the training program curriculum. The
46	40		training program curriculum must include:
47	41		(1) evidence-based protocols for obstetric
48	42		emergencies;
49	43		(2) TexasAIM maternal safety best practices for
50	44		specific maternal and postpartum conditions;
51	45		(3) maternal safety simulations; and
52	46		(4) other information the review committee recommends
53	47		regarding best practices for reducing maternal mortality and
54	48		morbidity rates.
55		-	(d) The executive commissioner and each appropriate
56		-	licensing authority of a health care provider by rule shall require
57		-	health care providers providing health care services to maternal
58		-	patients to participate in the training program.
	49	+	(d) The executive commissioner by rule shall require health
	50	+	care providers providing health care services to maternal patients
	51	+	to participate in the training program.
59	52		Sec. 34A.003. RULES. The executive commissioner shall
60	53		adopt rules as necessary to establish and implement the training
61	54		program under this chapter, including rules regarding monitoring
62	55		health care provider compliance.
63	56		SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
64	57		of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
65		-	Services Commission and each appropriate licensing authority of a
66		-	health care provider shall adopt the rules required by Chapter 34A,
	58	+	Services Commission shall adopt the rules required by Chapter 34A,
67	59		Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
68	60		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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