- (a) The department shall post on the department's Internet website information regarding the systematic protocol for pregnancy-related death investigations and the best practices for reporting pregnancy-related deaths to the medical examiner or justice of the peace of each county, as applicable.
(b) The information provided under Subsection (a) must include guidelines for:
- (1) determining when a comprehensive toxicology screening should be performed on a person whose death was related to pregnancy;
- (2) determining when a death should be reported to or investigated by a medical examiner or justice of the peace under Chapter 49, Code of Criminal Procedure; and
- (3) correctly completing the death certificate of a person whose death was related to pregnancy.
- (c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 927 (S.B. 1599), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.