Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 32 - Maternal And Infant Health Improvement

SUBCHAPTER A PROGRAM FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN

• Texas Section 32.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Maternal and Infant Health Improvement Act. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
• Texas Section 32.002 - Definitions
  (a) In this chapter: (1) "Adolescent" means an individual younger than 18 years of age. (2) "Ancillary services" means services necessary to obtain timely, effective,...
• Texas Section 32.003 - Maternal And Infant Health Improvement Services Program
  (a) The executive commissioner may establish a maternal and infant health improvement services program in the department to provide comprehensive maternal and infant health improvement...
• Texas Section 32.005 - Abortion Services Restricted
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, funds administered under this chapter may not be used to provide abortion services unless the mother's life is...
• Texas Section 32.006 - Administration
  (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer this chapter, and the department shall administer the program in accordance with those rules. (b)...
• Texas Section 32.011 - Denial, Modification, Suspension, Or Termination Of Services
  (a) The department may, for cause, deny, modify, suspend, or terminate services to an individual eligible for or receiving services after notice to the individual...
• Texas Section 32.012 - Financial Eligibility; Other Benefits
  (a) The department shall require an individual receiving services under this chapter, or the person with a legal obligation to support the individual, to pay...
• Texas Section 32.013 - Recovery Of Costs
  (a) The department may recover the cost of services provided under this chapter from a person who does not reimburse the department as required by...
• Texas Section 32.014 - Fees
  (a) Except as prohibited by federal law or regulation, the department may collect fees for the services provided directly by the department or through approved...
• Texas Section 32.015 - Funding
  (a) Except as provided by this chapter or by other law, the department may seek, receive, and spend funds received through an appropriation, grant, donation,...
• Texas Section 32.016 - Contracts
  The department shall enter into contracts and agreements or award grants necessary to facilitate the efficient and economical provision of services under this chapter, including...
• Texas Section 32.017 - Records
  (a) The department shall require each provider receiving reimbursement under this chapter to maintain records and information for each applicant for or recipient of services....
• Texas Section 32.018 - Program Plans
  (a) The department shall have a long-range plan covering at least six years that includes at least the following elements: (1) quantifiable indicators of effort...
• Texas Section 32.021 - Requirements Regarding The Women, Infants, And Children Program
  (a) An agency, organization, or other entity that contracts with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children shall each month provide the...

SUBCHAPTER B PERINATAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

• Texas Section 32.0211 - Women, Infants, And Children Program Outreach Campaign To Promote Fathers' Involvement
  (a) The attorney general shall: (1) subject to Subsections (b) and (c), develop and periodically update a publication that: (A) describes the importance and long-term...
• Texas Section 32.041 - Legislative Findings
  (a) The legislature finds that the perinatal period beginning before conception and continuing through the first year of life poses unique challenges for the health...
• Texas Section 32.042 - Duties Of Executive Commissioner; Rules
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt: (1) minimum standards and objectives to implement voluntary perinatal health care systems; and (2) policies for health...
• Texas Section 32.043 - Duties Of Department
  The department shall: (1) develop and monitor a statewide network of voluntary perinatal health care systems; (2) develop and maintain a perinatal reporting and analysis...
• Texas Section 32.044 - System Requirements
  (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,...

SUBCHAPTER D CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

• Texas Section 32.045 - Grant Program
  (a) The department may establish a program to award grants to initiate, expand, maintain, and improve voluntary perinatal health care systems. (b) The executive commissioner...
• Texas Section 32.071 - Designation Of Centers Of Excellence For Fetal Diagnosis And Therapy
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Perinatal Advisory Council established under Section 241.187, shall designate as centers of excellence for fetal diagnosis and therapy...
• Texas Section 32.072 - Subcommittee
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Perinatal Advisory Council, shall appoint a subcommittee of that advisory council to advise the advisory council and the...
• Texas Section 32.073 - Priority Considerations For Center Designations
  The rules adopted under Section 32.071(b) must prioritize awarding a designation under this subchapter to a health care entity or program that: (1) offers fetal...
• Texas Section 32.074 - Qualifications For Designation
  The rules adopted under Section 32.071(b) must ensure that a health care entity or program that receives a center of excellence designation under this subchapter:...

Last modified: September 28, 2016