bill requiring maternal health training for providers

The text as introduced · 409 words

90R497 JG-D

By: Perry
S.B. No. 289

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a maternal health training program for health care

providers serving maternal patients.

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, the Texas Hospital Association, and other partners

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

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 and each appropriate health

care provider licensing authority 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 and each appropriate health care provider

licensing authority 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, 2027.