Tex. Health & Safety Code § 32.044 · Subchapter B. PERINATAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each voluntary perinatal health care system must have:
(1) a coordinating board responsible for ensuring, providing, or coordinating planning access to services, data collection, and provider education;
(2) access to appropriate emergency medical services;
(3) risk assessment, transport, and transfer protocols for perinatal patients;
(4) one or more health care facilities categorized according to perinatal care capabilities using standards adopted by department rule; and
(5) documentation of broad-based participation in planning by providers of perinatal services and community representatives throughout the defined geographic region.
(b) This subchapter does not prohibit a health care facility from providing services that it is authorized to provide under a license issued to the facility by the department.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 124, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0094, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.32.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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