| TX | SB189 | Pass | Relating to the creation of a criminal offense concerning the failure of certain persons to report mistreatment of residents of group homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB186 | Pass | Relating to the prohibited discharge of a patient to certain unlicensed or unpermitted group-centered facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB401 | Pass | Relating to prices charged by a medical staffing services agency during certain designated public health disaster periods; providing a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1527 | Pass | Relating to the relationship between dentists and certain employee benefit plans and health insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB773 | Pass | Relating to access to certain investigational drugs, biological products, and devices used in clinical trials by patients with severe chronic diseases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB739 | Pass | Relating to designating October 10 as Supportive Palliative Care Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB1467 | Veto | Relating to the disclosure of certain medical information by electronic means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Vetoed by the Governor |
| TX | SB25 | Pass | Relating to support for nursing-related postsecondary education, including scholarships to nursing students, loan repayment assistance to nurses and nursing faculty, and grants to nursing education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB3058 | Pass | Relating to the provision of certain medical treatment to a pregnant woman by a physician or health care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-17
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4700 | Pass | Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Nacogdoches County Hospital District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-17
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB3162 | Pass | Relating to advance directives, do-not-resuscitate orders, and health care treatment decisions made by or on behalf of certain patients, including a review of directives and decisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-17
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB485 | Veto | Relating to designating the second Saturday in October as Hospice and Palliative Care Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-16
Vetoed by the Governor |
| TX | HB1696 | Pass | Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1357 | Pass | Relating to Medicaid reimbursement for certain medication-assisted treatments for opioid or substance use disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB1673 | Pass | Relating to training requirements for staff members of certain assisted living facilities that provide care to persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1998 | Pass | Relating to the regulation of physicians, the disciplinary authority of the Texas Medical Board, and the administration of the Texas Physician Health Program; increasing a criminal penalty; imposing a surcharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB3456 | Pass | Relating to the continuation of certain health care provider participation programs in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB3550 | Pass | Relating to standards for and services provided by prescribed pediatric extended care centers, including Medicaid reimbursement for those services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4500 | Pass | Relating to electronic verification of health benefits by health benefit plan issuers for certain physicians and health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 1/1/24 |
| TX | HB55 | Pass | Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of indecent assault; increasing a criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB44 | Pass | Relating to provider discrimination against a Medicaid recipient or child health plan program enrollee based on immunization status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB711 | Pass | Relating to certain contract provisions and conduct affecting health care provider networks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB852 | Pass | Relating to the composition of the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB3359 | Pass | Relating to network adequacy standards and other requirements for preferred provider benefit plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB3808 | Pass | Relating to the pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4331 | Pass | Relating to the donors of certain unused prescription drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4835 | Pass | Relating to the creation and operations of certain health care provider participation programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11
See remarks for effective date |
| TX | HB1283 | Pass | Relating to prescription drug formularies applicable to the Medicaid managed care program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1647 | Pass | Relating to health benefit plan coverage of clinician-administered drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1911 | Pass | Relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in ad valorem tax appraisal records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB1925 | Pass | Relating to the continuation of a health care provider participation program by the Harris County Hospital District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB2002 | Pass | Relating to preferred provider benefit plan out-of-pocket expense credits for payments made by an insured directly to a physician or health care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4928 | Pass | Relating to the continuation of certain health care provider participation programs in certain counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB849 | Pass | Relating to the continuation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the El Paso County Hospital District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB14 | Pass | Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB490 | Pass | Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-29
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1771 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-26
House appoints conferees-reported |
| TX | HB248 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to solicitation of patients and other prohibited marketing practices and the establishment of the task force on patient solicitation; increasing criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Removed from local & uncontested calendar |
| TX | SB840 | Pass | Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB2414 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to certain practices of a health maintenance organization or insurer to encourage the use of certain physicians and health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| TX | HB3942 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine, teledentistry, and telehealth appointments with an originating site or distant site located outside this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Removed from local & uncontested calendar |
| TX | HB4524 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to conducting certain medical examinations using telemedicine under the workers' compensation system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Removed from local & uncontested calendar |
| TX | SB177 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to informed consent before provision of certain medical treatments and exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB2702 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to payments associated with certain medical examinations under the workers' compensation system; imposing a fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the authority of a peace officer to apprehend a person for emergency detention and the authority of certain facilities and physicians to temporarily detain a person with mental illness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-21
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB1286 | Pass | Relating to prompt payment deadlines for health benefit plan claims affected by a catastrophic event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2171 | Pass | Relating to the qualifications of experts in certain health care liability claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2193 | Pass | Relating to programs established and operated by federally qualified health centers to provide primary care access to certain employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB1534 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain other health care practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Public Health Committee |
| TX | SB2527 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the regulation of telemedicine medical services, teledentistry services, and telehealth services; providing a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Public Health Committee |
