Amend CSHB 11 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows:
(a-2) In prescribing the form and contents of death certificates, the department shall require each death certificate to indicate whether a female decedent was pregnant at the time of death or was pregnant at any time in the year preceding the decedent's death.
SECTION ____. (a) Not later than March 1, 2018, the Department of State Health Services shall revise and make available the forms required by Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act applies only to a death certificate filed on or after April 1, 2018.