85R11884 LED-D     By: Farrar H.B. No. 3696       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to birth record information included in certain health   care data collection.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 108.002(6), Health and Safety Code, is   amended to read as follows:                (6)  "Data" means information collected under Section   108.0065, 108.0066, or 108.009 in the form initially received.          SECTION 2.  Chapter 108, Health and Safety Code, is amended   by adding Section 108.0066 to read as follows:          Sec. 108.0066.  BIRTH RECORD DATA. (a)  In this section,   "birth record data" means the data associated with the birth of an   infant, including:                (1)  information from the mother's prenatal care   visits;                (2)  the number of previous live births or miscarriages   of the mother;                (3)  the gestational age of the infant;                (4)  the infant's birth weight;                (5)  whether the infant is breast-fed in the hospital;   and                (6)  whether the mother smoked during the pregnancy.          (b)  The department shall collect birth record data under   this chapter. The department may coordinate the collection of the   data with local registrars and the vital statistics unit of the   department. If the department requires additional birth record   data, a hospital shall provide to the department the data required   by the department in the form required by the department.          (c)  Dissemination of data collected under this section is   subject to Sections 108.010, 108.011, 108.012, 108.013, 108.014,   and 108.0141.          (d)  The department shall include the birth record data   collected under this section with hospital inpatient public use   data. The department shall cross-reference the birth record data of   an infant with the appropriate hospital inpatient data for the   patient giving birth to the infant to:                (1)  increase the accuracy of the data;                (2)  reduce incomplete data; and                (3)  support research of maternal and newborn deaths   and complications.          SECTION 3.  Not later than June 1, 2018, the Department of   State Health Services shall:                (1)  collect birth record data described by Section   108.0066, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, for the   period beginning January 1, 2010, through the second quarter of the   year 2017;                (2)  cross-reference the birth record data described by   Subdivision (1) with the appropriate hospital inpatient public use   data as described by Section 108.0066(d), Health and Safety Code,   as added by this Act; and                (3)  incorporate the data described by Subdivisions (1)   and (2) into the public use data provided by the department.          SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.