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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
The DOCTOR Act creates a provisional-license route for qualifying foreign-licensed physicians and a separate, supervised limited license for physicia…
Official caption: Relating to the issuance by the Texas Medical Board of certain licenses to practice medicine and the authority of an insured to select certain license holders under the insured's health policy; requiring an occupational license; authorizing fees.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2071 strengthens family access to medical information and limits conflicts of interest in certain medical assessments during child-abuse or neglect…
Official caption: Relating to certain policies and procedures for health care specialty consultations in certain child abuse or neglect investigations and assessments.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2187 adds accountability and complaint procedures to existing hospital nurse-staffing and mandatory-overtime laws.
Official caption: Relating to hospital staffing report and complaint processes and to retaliation and mandatory overtime protections for nurses.
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HB2221 creates Insurance Code Chapter 1702, reorganizing rules for life insurance, annuities, accident and health insurance, and health maintenance o…
Official caption: Relating to certain trade practices related to life insurance, annuity contracts, and accident and health coverage.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2254 expressly permits preferred-provider and exclusive-provider health plans to contract directly with qualifying primary-care physicians or group…
Official caption: Relating to certain health care services contract arrangements entered into by insurers and health care providers.
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HB2293 keeps the Sweeny Hospital District’s board at seven directors, but specifies that they are elected at large by place: each seat has a separate…
Official caption: Relating to the election of the members of the board of directors of the Sweeny Hospital District.
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HB2358 repeals specific state requirements for long-term-care training and information sessions.
Official caption: Relating to training required or offered by the Health and Human Services Commission for long-term care facility surveyors, personnel, and providers and ICF-IID program providers.
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HB2607 puts staggered four-year terms directly into the law governing the Walker County Hospital District’s five elected managers, with two or three …
Official caption: Relating to the terms of the members of the board of hospital managers and leasing authority of the Walker County Hospital District.
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HB2655 allows a community-based nonprofit organization to establish or participate in a regional health-care program without a county commissioners c…
Official caption: Relating to operation by certain nonprofit organizations of certain regional health care programs for employees of small employers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
The Jovian Motley Act, effective September 1, 2025, requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide de-escalation, crisis-interve…
Official caption: Relating to training on de-escalation, crisis intervention, and behavioral health for correctional officers and certain other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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The Pokuaa-Flowers Act requires advance parole-officer approval for certain non-treatment visits to general hospitals.
Official caption: Relating to the required approval of certain hospital visits as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision for certain releasees and to the hospital's liability for damages resulting from those visits.
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HB3057 sets a provider-access rule for covered health plans that already cover chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, usually called CAR T-cell th…
Official caption: Relating to health benefit plan coverage for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
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HB3151 expressly includes federally qualified health centers and their healthcare providers in the applicant definition for Texas Medicaid managed-ca…
Official caption: Relating to expedited credentialing of certain federally qualified health center providers by Medicaid managed care organizations.
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HB3348 authorizes certain counties to collect mandatory payments from nonpublic hospitals providing inpatient services, place the money in a separate…
Official caption: Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program in certain counties.
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HB3376 adds one hour of training on Alzheimer's disease, dementia and related disorders, generally within six months after appointment and at least a…
Official caption: Relating to training on Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and related disorders for certain guardians.
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HB3505 gives a narrowly eligible, existing health care provider participation district a way to continue collecting hospital payments after its earli…
Official caption: Relating to the continuation and operation of a health care provider participation district created by certain local governments to administer a health care provider participation program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3560 brings facilities licensed under Health and Safety Code Chapter 577, including private mental hospitals and other covered mental health facili…
Official caption: Relating to the licensing of mental hospitals and mental health facilities and the definition of facility for the purposes of the employee misconduct registry.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3594 updates the retiree health-care trust for San Antonio firefighters and police officers, rather than creating a statewide retirement benefit.
Official caption: Relating to the administration of a retirement health care plan for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3788 gives municipal hospital authorities more flexibility in board selection, public-health projects, services for older or disabled residents, bo…
Official caption: Relating to the operations of municipal hospital authorities.
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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 provi…
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.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3801 replaces the Statewide Health Coordinating Council with a Health Professions Workforce Coordinating Council focused on workforce data and plan…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Health Professions Workforce Coordinating Council and a workgroup on nursing career pathways and the abolition of the statewide health coordinating council and the nursing advisory committee of that council.
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HB3812 changes Texas’s service-specific preauthorization exemptions, often called “gold cards,” and tightens physician qualifications for directing i…
Official caption: Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and the direction of utilization review by physicians.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4145 lets a health care provider satisfy the usual patient-billing deadline by submitting a bill to the patient's attorney when the services relate…
Official caption: Relating to the timely billing of health care services related to a personal injury claim.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4224 requires covered entities subject to the new provision to prominently post detailed consumer instructions both on their websites and at their …
Official caption: Relating to information regarding consumer access to health care records.
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HB4643 broadens statutory access to criminal-history information about health care providers and applicants participating in public-benefit programs …
Official caption: Relating to access to criminal history record information that relates to providers and provider applicants under Medicaid and other public benefits programs administered by the Health and Human Services Commission.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4666 changes when several health-agency reports are due and adds a broader deadline rule for reports required by the Health and Safety Code.
Official caption: Relating to certain reports required to be prepared or submitted by or in collaboration with the Health and Human Services Commission or submitted to the governor or a member of the legislature under the Health and Safety Code.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4743 allows the state to issue one license covering a hospital and its mobile stroke unit, if the unit is accredited by a health care accreditation…
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a single license for a hospital and a mobile stroke unit of the hospital.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4795 requires the Department of State Health Services’ vital statistics unit to create electronic processes, using existing resources, through whic…
Official caption: Relating to duties of the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services in relation to certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including in regard to the electronic transmission of certain information.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4995 creates a special handgun-training and certification route for physicians and emergency medical services personnel whom a law-enforcement agen…
Official caption: Relating to the carrying of handguns by tactical medical professionals while on duty providing support to tactical units of law enforcement agencies.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5154 strengthens oversight, student communication and financial reporting for the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP), which supports highly qua…
Official caption: Relating to the Joint Admission Medical Program Council.
