Assembly Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 238 (BDR 40-72)
Proposed by: Committee on Health and Human Services
Amendment Box:
Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:
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Amend sec. 5, page 2, line 8, by deleting "
"Poor reproductive" and inserting ""Adverse birth".Amend sec. 7, page 2, line 14, by deleting "
poor reproductive" and inserting "adverse birth".Amend sec. 8, page 2, by deleting lines 18 through 36 and inserting:
"Sec. 8.
1. The chief administrative officer of each hospital and obstetric center or his representative shall:(a) Maintain and make available to the state health officer or his representative a list of:
(1) Patients who are under 7 years of age and have been diagnosed with one or more birth defects; and
(2) Patients discharged with adverse birth outcomes; and
(b) Make available to the state health officer or his representative the records of the hospital or obstetric center regarding:
(1) Patients who are under 7 years of age and have been diagnosed with one or more birth defects; and
(2) Patients discharged with adverse birth outcomes.
2. The name of a patient must remain on the list required to be maintained by subsection 1 for at least 5 years after the patient is discharged from the hospital or obstetric center.
".Amend sec. 8, page 2, after line 40, by inserting:
"
4. As used in this section, "hospital" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.".Amend sec. 9, page 3, by deleting lines 1 and 2 and inserting:
"
(a) To investigate the causes of birth defects and other adverse birth outcomes;".Amend sec. 9, page 3, line 4, by deleting "
poor reproductive" and inserting "adverse birth". Amend sec. 9, page 3, line 12, before "approved" by inserting "authorized and".Amend sec. 9, page 3, line 22, by deleting "
poor reproductive" and inserting "adverse birth".Amend sec. 10, page 3, line 30, by deleting "
each" and inserting "the".Amend sec. 10, page 3, line 34, by deleting "
research." and inserting:"
research obtained by the person given access, based upon information in the system.".Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sections 11 through 17 as sections 14 through 20 and adding new sections designated sections 11 through 13, following sec. 10, to read as follows:
"Sec. 11. NRS 442.003 is hereby amended to read as follows:
442.003 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
1. "Advisory board" means the advisory board on maternal and child health.
2. "Department" means the department of human resources.
3. "Director" means the director of the department of human resources.
4. "Health division" means the health division of the department of human resources.
5. "Obstetric center" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0155.
Sec. 12.
NRS 442.040 is hereby amended to read as follows:2. Midwives shall immediately report conditions to some qualified practitioner of medicine and thereupon withdraw from the case except as they may act under the physician’s instructions.
3. On receipt of such report, the health officer, or the physician notified by a midwife, shall immediately give to the parents or persons having charge of such infant a warning of the dangers to the eye or eyes of the infant, and shall, for indigent cases, provide the necessary treatment at the expense of the county, city or other political subdivision.
Sec. 13. NRS 442.110 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Amend sec. 11, page 3, line 40, by deleting "maternity home" and inserting:
"[maternity home] obstetric center".
Amend sec. 11, page 4, line 4, by deleting "maternity home" and inserting:
"[maternity home] obstetric center".
Amend the title of the bill, third line, by deleting "poor reproductive" and inserting "adverse birth".
Amend the summary of the bill by deleting the second and third lines and inserting:
"analysis of information concerning birth defects and other adverse birth outcomes.
(BDR 40-72)".