H.B. No. 852
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the composition of the Texas Maternal Mortality and
  Morbidity Review Committee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 34.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The review committee is a multidisciplinary advisory
  committee within the department and is composed of the following 23
  [17] members:
               (1)  21 [15] members appointed by the commissioner as
  follows:
                     (A)  four physicians specializing in obstetrics,
  at least one of whom is a maternal fetal medicine specialist;
                     (B)  one certified nurse-midwife;
                     (C)  one registered nurse;
                     (D)  one nurse specializing in labor and delivery;
                     (E)  one physician specializing in family
  practice;
                     (F)  one physician specializing in psychiatry;
                     (G)  one physician specializing in pathology;
                     (H)  one epidemiologist, biostatistician, or
  researcher of pregnancy-related deaths;
                     (I)  one social worker or social service provider;
                     (J)  two [one] community members with experience
  [advocate] in a relevant health care field, including a field
  involving the analysis of health care data, one of whom must
  represent an urban area of this state and one of whom must represent
  a rural area of this state;
                     (K)  one medical examiner or coroner responsible
  for recording deaths; [and]
                     (L)  one physician specializing in critical care;
                     (M)  one physician specializing in emergency
  care;
                     (N)  one physician specializing in cardiology;
                     (O)  one physician specializing in
  anesthesiology;
                     (P)  one physician specializing in oncology; and
                     (Q)  one representative of a managed care
  organization;
               (2)  a representative of the department's family and
  community health programs; and
               (3)  the state epidemiologist for the department or the
  epidemiologist's designee.
         SECTION 2.  Section 34.003(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Review committee members appointed by the commissioner
  serve staggered six-year terms, with one-third or as near as
  possible to one-third of the members' terms [of four or five
  members, as appropriate,] expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered
  year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the House on April
  14, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 127, Nays 16, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 852 on May 24, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 134, Nays 5, 1
  present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 17, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
  1.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor