SB1467

The minimum information is the deceased person’s county of residence, date of birth and full name, for each deceased person whose death certificate is filed with a local registrar in Texas. The act says “at a minimum,” so those three items are not an express maximum. It does not limit that description to people who died in the receiving hospital, and it does not require the three-item list to include cause of death. “Hospital” is limited to hospitals licensed under Health and Safety Code Chapter 241. This is a hospital information-sharing procedure, not a direction to publish death records for everyone on a public website. Final law, section 1.

The introduced bill required a procedure for licensed hospitals generally. The Senate committee substitute added the trauma-facility definition, limited the mandatory provision to Level I trauma facilities and made access for other hospitals discretionary and resource-dependent. The Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled versions kept that substituted operative text. No floor amendments are listed. Introduced; Senate substitute; Senate-passed; House committee; Final law; Version index; Amendment index.

If a state agency determines before implementation that a federal waiver or authorization is necessary for a provision, it must request that approval and may delay that provision until approval is granted. The act does not itself establish that approval is needed or that it has been obtained. Final law, section 2.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Eligible Level I trauma hospitals gain a required route to death information for the stated Medicaid managed-care purpose. Hospitals outside that group do not gain the same unconditional access requirement. The fiscal analysis assumes data-sharing agreements and modifications to the state health reporting platform; those are implementation assumptions, not proof that the system is already operating or that a particular hospital has access. The reviewed sources do not measure effects on payment accuracy or patient outcomes. Final law; Later fiscal analysis.

The May 11 fiscal note estimates a $685,966 General Revenue cost for fiscal years 2026–2027: $384,786 in 2026 and $301,180 in 2027. It assumes two additional full-time-equivalent positions and includes a one-time $143,521 technology cost within the 2026 total. Projected annual costs are about $302,000 in 2028–2030; no significant local fiscal impact is anticipated. The earlier, broader introduced bill had an estimated $1,359,039 two-year cost and five positions; those are not the final scope’s estimates. The act makes no appropriation, although it can support a later appropriation. May 11 fiscal note; Matching substitute estimate; Introduced-version estimate.