HB1586

All five operative bill versions—introduced, House committee, House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled—match. Five House amendments were proposed on May 13 and all failed. None is part of HB1586’s final law. Version index; amendment index and dispositions.

• Flores, Amendment 1: would have required an affidavit verifying that the requester watched a department video or read an information sheet about vaccination benefits and risks before receiving the form. Text.
• Wu, Amendment 2: would have required a notice on the form’s webpage when the department determined that a child age five or older was hospitalized or died from an infectious disease contracted in Texas, remaining until the first anniversary of the hospitalization’s start or death. Text.
• Howard, Amendment 3: would have expanded annual immunization reporting to include de-identified exemption information at both district and campus levels, required online publication, and provided parents on request with campus vaccination rates by vaccine and counts of medical/conscience exemptions, provisional enrollment and students not current on vaccinations. Text.
• Lalani, Amendment 4: would have made the department’s implementation obligation conditional on the commissioner determining that each Texas outbreak of an infectious disease previously considered eliminated in the United States had stopped spreading. Text.
• Bucy, Amendment 5: would have required a public school with an immunization-exemption rate of at least five percent to notify parents or guardians of students holding medical exemptions of the school’s exemption rate. Text.

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

Families seeking a conscience-based exemption can obtain the blank form without waiting for the department to mail it or disclosing information just to get it. They still need to complete the form, arrange notarization and follow the applicable submission rules. Families without convenient printing access retain the written-request option. The law reduces information the department must collect and report; it does not establish whether exemption use or disease rates will change.

The May 20, 2025 fiscal note projects $355,492 in state General Revenue savings over fiscal years 2026–27, or $177,746 annually in each fiscal year 2026–2030. The estimate assumes reduced spending on security paper, forms and educational materials, envelopes, labels, postage and temporary staff as people print forms themselves. It anticipates no significant local-government fiscal impact. These are estimated administrative savings, not guaranteed savings or a measurement of public-health effects; the bill makes no appropriation.

Review boundary: All enacted provisions, all text versions, all five amendment texts and their failed dispositions, both fiscal notes, and existing signature, notarization and school-admission rules were checked. This is an explanation of the law and its fiscal estimate, not individual medical advice or proof that every school or agency has implemented it correctly.