85R14339 DMS-D By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1929 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to a report on maternal mortality and the continuation of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 34.0155 to read as follows: Sec. 34.0155. REPORT ON MATERNAL MORTALITY. The commission shall: (1) evaluate options for reducing maternal mortality, focusing on the most prevalent causes of maternal death as identified in the task force's biennial report required under Section 34.015; and (2) submit a written report that summarizes the commission's efforts to accomplish the tasks described by Subdivision (1) to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the Legislative Budget Board, and the appropriate standing committees of the legislature not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year. SECTION 2. Section 34.018, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 34.018. SUNSET PROVISION. The task force is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the task force is abolished and this chapter expires December 31, 2023 [September 1, 2019]. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.