Maternal health; protocols and resources for hospitals and outpatient providers, etc.

Minor text refinements including changing 'regarding' to 'relating to' in data collection language and adjusting phrasing around protocol development requirements.

Procedural changes reflecting transfer from House Health and Human Services Committee to Senate Education and Health Committee with updated dates.

Removed original House Substitute header information and replaced with Senate Substitute formatting.

Formatting and spacing were corrected throughout the document to match official legislative document standards, including proper alignment of headers and line breaks.

Page numbers and document identifiers (25106339D, HB2753H1) were added to the header and footer sections for proper document tracking.

The amendment date was changed from February 28, 2025 to January 30, 2025, reflecting the correct date the House Committee on Health and Human Services proposed this substitute.

Changed 'When developing such standardized protocols' to 'When adopting such protocols' in subsection B.

Changed 'data relating to the implementation' to 'data regarding implementation' in subsection D.

Changed 'submit a report on such data by October 1 of each year' to 'submit a report annually by October 1' in subsection D.

Removed the word 'and' after 'maternal health' in the title of section 32.1-134.03.

Changed the bill title from 'Enrolled' to 'Substitute' indicating it is now a draft version for committee consideration rather than a final enacted law.

Outpatient providers were added to the list of entities required to receive training materials and checklists for obstetric emergencies.

The bill changed from requiring hospitals to directly implement protocols to requiring the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative to develop training materials and protocols for both inpatient and outpatient providers.

The requirement for facilities to submit data to the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Patient Safety Bundle was removed from the final version.

A new requirement was added for the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative to collect implementation data and submit an annual report by October 1 to health and appropriations committees.