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101 matching bills · Page 3 of 4
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5342 creates a trust fund outside the state treasury for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, administered by the Health and Human Services Commissio…
Official caption: Relating to the provision of behavioral health crisis services, including measures to fund and support the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and related services.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5664 changes governance and financial administration of the Wood County Central Hospital District.
Official caption: Relating to the operation of Wood County Central Hospital District of Wood County, Texas.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB5 sets out a state grant-making institute for research and prevention involving dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and related diso…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB31, the Life of the Mother Act, aligns several Texas abortion-law exceptions around a physician's reasonable medical judgment and adds training for…
Official caption: Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB53 changes how notice and signed paperwork are handled in court proceedings under the Texas Mental Health Code.
Official caption: Relating to certain notice and filing requirements in court proceedings involving persons with mental illness.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB304 lets a city authorize its municipal court to handle specified civil code-enforcement matters and issue related warrants.
Official caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances.
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SB331 expands Texas’s health-care price-disclosure law to more kinds of facilities, while exempting facilities with less than $10 million in total gr…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure of health care cost information by certain health care facilities; imposing an administrative penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB434 allows the Harris County Hospital District’s board to employ and commission its own peace officers.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Harris County Hospital District to employ and commission peace officers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB437 permits live online delivery of required abuse-prevention training and adds financial-impact factors to chemical-dependency facility penalties.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities and to civil and administrative penalties assessed for violations of statutes or rules governing chemical dependency treatment facilities.
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SB499 lets the West Coke County Hospital District choose a depository bank outside the district.
Official caption: Relating to the selection by the board of directors of the West Coke County Hospital District of a depository bank for the district.
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SB502 puts specified Health and Human Services inspector-general peace officers on the state’s Schedule C pay system and extends hazardous-duty and i…
Official caption: Relating to peace officers commissioned by the Health and Human Services Commission's office of inspector general.
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SB527 prevents covered health plans that already cover general anesthesia from excluding medically necessary general anesthesia for certain children’…
Official caption: Relating to health benefit coverage for general anesthesia in connection with certain pediatric dental services.
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SB672 requires covered hospitals to send the Texas Health and Human Services Commission a written summary of how they plan to divert emergency patien…
Official caption: Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB815 limits automated denials in health-plan utilization review—the process of checking whether care is medically necessary or appropriate.
Official caption: Relating to the use of certain automated systems in, and certain adverse determinations made in connection with, the health benefit claims process.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB855 allows an authorized medical decision-maker other than the Department of Family and Protective Services to take financial responsibility for a …
Official caption: Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.
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SB896 gives families more time to arrange continuing newborn coverage under the health plans specified in the act.
Official caption: Relating to the enrollment period for newborns under certain health benefit plans.
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SB897 lowers the required non-state match for certain grants supporting community mental-health services for veterans and their families, subject to …
Official caption: Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs assisting veterans and their families.
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SB916 extends specified out-of-network ground-ambulance billing protections and the state’s local-rate database to September 1, 2027, changes who may…
Official caption: Relating to consumer protections against certain medical and health care billing by emergency medical services providers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB922 says certain sensitive test results cannot be released to a patient or specified representative through a consented-to electronic portal or sim…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure of certain medical information by electronic means.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB926 allows covered health plans to offer cost-sharing incentives for using particular providers, but requires those steering and network-tier decis…
Official caption: Relating to certain practices of health benefit plan issuers to encourage the use of certain physicians and health care providers and rank physicians.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB963 prevents Texas Medicaid managed-care marketing guidelines from banning two kinds of private-plan outreach.
Official caption: Relating to allowing Medicaid managed care organizations to engage in marketing about the availability of certain private health benefit plan coverage.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1164 expressly adds inability to recognize mental-illness symptoms or appreciate treatment’s risks and benefits to several detention and inpatient-…
Official caption: Relating to emergency detention of certain persons evidencing mental illness and to court-ordered inpatient and extended mental health services.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1185 exempts certain small medical-device boilers and unfired pressure vessels in autoclaves from Texas Health and Safety Code chapter 755, the sta…
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from boiler registration and inspection requirements for certain boilers in medical equipment and autoclaves.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1188 creates a Texas electronic-health-record framework covering storage, access, specified record fields, diagnostic AI and enforcement.
Official caption: Relating to electronic health record requirements; authorizing a civil penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1214 updates election, administration, contracting and borrowing rules for the Concho County Hospital District.
Official caption: Relating to the operations and administration of the Concho County Hospital District.
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SB1236 gives pharmacies new contract-transparency protections and limits certain audit-related payment recoveries by insurers and pharmacy benefit ma…
Official caption: Relating to the relationship between pharmacists or pharmacies and health benefit plan issuers or pharmacy benefit managers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1257 requires certain health plans that cover, or have covered, an enrollee’s gender-transition treatment to cover related adverse effects, monitor…
Official caption: Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1307 requires the Texas Department of Insurance to produce a public health-coverage reference guide every two years, in consultation with the Healt…
Official caption: Relating to a biennial health coverage reference guide developed by the Texas Department of Insurance.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1318 limits noncompete agreements for physicians, dentists, licensed professional or vocational nurses, and physician assistants.
Official caption: Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain health care practitioners.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1330 sets conditions on certain medical-equipment charges to Medicare enrollees by nonparticipating suppliers.
Official caption: Relating to billing and reimbursement for certain medical equipment, devices, and supplies provided to Medicare enrollees; creating a criminal offense.
