New Mexico SB 96: MATERNAL MORTALITY CASE REVIEWS

Bill Text

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AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AMENDING THE MATERNAL MORTALITY
AND MORBIDITY PREVENTION ACT TO CLARIFY THE TYPES OF CASES
REVIEWED BY THE MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW COMMITTEE;
EXPANDING COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP, POWERS AND
PRIVILEGES; REQUIRING APPROVAL BY THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH FOR
COMMITTEE ACTIONS; PROVIDING FOR AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE;
CLARIFYING MEMBERSHIP; ELIMINATING A SUBCOMMITTEE; PROVIDING
A DEADLINE FOR RULEMAKING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 24-32-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
Chapter 41, Section 1) is amended to read:
"24-32-1. SHORT TITLE.--Chapter 24, Article 32 NMSA
1978 may be cited as the "Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
Prevention Act"."
SECTION 2. Section 24-32-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
Chapter 41, Section 2) is amended to read:
"24-32-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Maternal
Mortality and Morbidity Prevention Act:
A. "administrative co-chair" means the chief
medical officer of the department or another representative
of the department appointed by the secretary of health;
B. "aggregate data" means health care data that
exclude any individually identifiable health information,

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including patient and health care provider identification;
C. "chief medical officer" means the chief medical
officer of the department;
D. "clinical co-chair" means a committee member
with maternal child health clinical or paraprofessional
training nominated by the committee and approved by the
department to serve in this position;
E. "committee" means the maternal mortality review
committee;
F. "committee member" means a person who has been
appointed to sit as a member of the committee and who
participates in committee business and votes on committee
matters;
G. "critical income" means income lost as a result
of uncompensated work time used to attend a committee
meeting;
H. "de-identified data" means data from which the
following identifiers have been removed:
(1) names;
(2) any geographic subdivision smaller than
a state, including street address, city, county, precinct and
zip code and their equivalent geocodes;
(3) all elements of dates, except the year
of an incident, that are directly related to an individual,
including birth date, admission date, date of delivery,

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discharge date and date of death;
(4) telephone numbers;
(5) fax numbers;
(6) electronic mail addresses;
(7) social security numbers;
(8) medical record numbers;
(9) health plan beneficiary numbers;
(10) account numbers;
(11) certificate and license numbers;
(12) vehicle identifiers and serial numbers,
including license plate numbers;
(13) device identifiers and serial numbers;
(14) web universal resource locators, also
known as "URLs";
(15) internet protocol address numbers;
(16) biometric identifiers, including finger
and voice prints;
(17) full-face photographic images and any
comparable images; and
(18) any other unique identifying number,
characteristic or code;
I. "department" means the department of health;
J. "health care provider" means:
(1) an individual licensed, certified or
otherwise authorized to provide health care services in the

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ordinary course of business in the state; or
(2) a health facility that the department
licenses;
K. "law enforcement agency" means a law
enforcement agency of the state, an Indian nation, tribe or
pueblo or a political subdivision of the state;
L. "maternal mortality" means the death of a
pregnant woman or a woman within one year postpartum;
M. "medical record" means the written or graphic
documentation, sound recording or electronic record relating
to medical, behavioral health and health care services that a
patient receives from a health care provider or under the
direction of a physician or another licensed health care
provider. "Medical record" includes diagnostic
documentation, including an x-ray, electrocardiogram and
electroencephalogram; other test results; data entered into a
prescription drug monitoring program; and an autopsy report;
N. "operational staff" means staff or contractors
of the department assigned or contracted to support the work
of the committee or its executive committee;
O. "qualified invited guest" means a person
approved by the co-chairs and invited by the committee to
attend a committee meeting to provide technical expertise to
the committee, to enhance training in maternal health, to
provide insight on maternal mortality or severe maternal

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morbidity review in other jurisdictions or to provide
operational support to the committee; and
P. "severe maternal morbidity" means unexpected
outcomes of labor and delivery that r