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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB3800

HB3800 requires the Texas Workforce Commission to establish an advisory board to develop a resource guide for collaboration between health-care providers and higher-education institutions.

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Official caption: Relating to an advisory board established to develop a resource guide that facilitates collaboration in identifying and addressing local health care workforce needs.

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Official report lists House author(s): Orr, Shofner. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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HB3800 requires the Texas Workforce Commission to establish an advisory board to develop a resource guide for collaboration between health-care providers and higher-education institutions.
The commission’s executive director appoints 13 members: one each from urban and rural two-year institutions, one each from urban and rural public four-year institutions, three representing geographically diverse local workforce development boards, and two each from statewide organizations representing hospitals, health-care professionals and community health centers.
The act took effect September 1, 2025, with appointments required as soon as practicable afterward.

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What does it do?

HB3800 requires the Texas Workforce Commission to establish an advisory board to develop a resource guide for collaboration between health-care providers and higher-education institutions. The guide must address local workforce needs, including training, shortages and challenging workloads. This is a planning and coordination measure, not a hiring mandate or a new grant program. Final law.

The commission’s executive director appoints 13 members: one each from urban and rural two-year institutions, one each from urban and rural public four-year institutions, three representing geographically diverse local workforce development boards, and two each from statewide organizations representing hospitals, health-care professionals and community health centers. The board chooses its presiding officer and meets periodically and at that officer’s call.

The act took effect September 1, 2025, with appointments required as soon as practicable afterward. The commission must prepare and submit the resource guide to the legislature by November 1, 2026. The board is abolished and its establishing section expires September 1, 2027. These are statutory requirements; the act alone does not establish that appointments or submission occurred on schedule.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill proposed a larger, differently composed board, with more higher-education seats, private health-provider education programs, separate urban/rural workforce-board representation, named hospital organizations, long-term-care/hospice/home-health representation and state-agency representatives. The House substitute replaced that structure with 14 seats and more general organizational categories, while keeping the guide’s purpose, deadline and expiration date.

The sole indexed floor amendment—House Amendment 1, offered by Orr and adopted May 5—replaced two statewide public-health-clinic organization seats plus one Texas Association of Community Health Centers seat with two seats from statewide organizations representing community health centers. This reduced the substitute’s total from 14 to 13. Its page-and-line instructions match House-report page 2, lines 10–14, and the change survives in the final law.

The engrossed text, Senate report and final operative text match. The amendment index lists that one adopted amendment; the version index supplies the successive texts.

The House passed it 128–18 with three present but not voting; the Senate passed it 30–1. The governor signed it June 20, 2025. Official history.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Health-care providers, educators and local workforce boards may gain a common resource for designing training partnerships and addressing staffing needs. Rural and urban educational perspectives both receive designated seats. Workers and patients could benefit if collaboration leads to better training or staffing, but the bill does not guarantee new positions, reduced workloads or additional health-care access.

The Workforce Commission and participating organizations must supply the work needed to organize the board and produce the guide. The May 16 fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local fiscal impact and assumes state costs can be absorbed with existing resources. The introduced and House-substitute notes reach the same conclusion; none provides a dollar estimate for benefits from future partnerships.

Review boundary: This describes the temporary board, final membership, required guide and deadlines—not a verification that the guide has been delivered or that workforce shortages have improved.

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