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HB6 gives schools more authority to remove disruptive students, broadens several expulsion grounds and changes suspension rules.
Official caption: Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
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HB18 puts rural-hospital financial assistance into law, changes Medicaid payment rules, and expands connections to pediatric specialists and mental-h…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment and administration of certain programs and services providing health care services to rural counties.
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Everly's Law requires covered hospitals to make bereavement counseling options and any available bereavement device available after an intrauterine f…
Official caption: Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program.
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HB46 expands Texas's prescription low-THC cannabis program, adds qualifying conditions and calls for more licensed suppliers and local pickup/storage…
Official caption: Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration.
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HB109 broadens the state-facility framework for residential treatment of certain juveniles beyond a single named center and permits a direct, one-tim…
Official caption: Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.
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HB114 makes the Texas Veterans Commission responsible for three existing veterans’ mental-health efforts previously administered through the Health a…
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of functions relating to certain veteran mental health programs and plans to the Texas Veterans Commission.
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HB138 creates a program at UTHealth Houston's Center for Health Care Data to examine proposed health-insurance requirements before lawmakers enact th…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program; authorizing a fee.
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HB142 updates the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's inspector-general powers and expressly extends recovery-audit work to Medicaid managed…
Official caption: Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission's office of inspector general, the review of certain Medicaid claims, and the recovery of certain overpayments under Medicaid.
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HB171, called the Anell Borrego Act, sets a 30-day minimum for several kinds of court-ordered chemical-dependency treatment, while retaining their 90…
Official caption: Relating to the certificate of medical examination for chemical dependency and the duration of court-ordered treatment for a person with a chemical dependency.
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HB198, the Wade Cannon Act, requires a political subdivision employing covered firefighters to offer them a confidential occupational cancer screenin…
Official caption: Relating to periodic health screenings for firefighters.
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HB216 changes how covered health-care providers deliver itemized bills, especially when a patient cannot be reached through an active online portal.
Official caption: Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
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HB331 broadens when a qualifying firefighter, peace officer or emergency medical technician can use a legal presumption that a disabling or fatal hea…
Official caption: Relating to certain presumptions applicable to claims for benefits or compensation for certain medical conditions brought by certain first responders.
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HB388 requires a uniform coordination-of-benefits questionnaire for the health plans it covers.
Official caption: Relating to a uniform coordination of benefits questionnaire for health benefit plans.
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HB426 requires Medicaid to cover the full cost of a qualifying cranial-remolding orthosis for a child enrolled in the program, with CHIP providing co…
Official caption: Relating to Medicaid and child health plan program coverage and reimbursement for childhood cranial remolding orthosis.
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HB467 creates a special procedure for dissolving the Cedar Creek Hospital District and using its remaining money for the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursin…
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for the dissolution of the Cedar Creek Hospital District and the disposition of district money.
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HB541 expands Texas's direct-primary-care framework into a broader direct-patient-care framework.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of direct patient care by physicians and health care practitioners.
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HB713 creates a narrow exception to professional reporting requirements for health care providers, expressly including nurses, who review information…
Official caption: Relating to an exception to certain reporting requirements for health care providers reviewing selected cases for the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
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HB721 removes regional or local health care programs operated under Health and Safety Code Section 75.104 from Insurance Code Chapter 1662's health c…
Official caption: Relating to the applicability of certain laws requiring health care cost disclosures by health benefit plan issuers and administrators.
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HB742 requires covered first responders to complete approved training on identifying, assisting and reporting victims of human trafficking.
Official caption: Relating to human trafficking prevention, including training for first responders, disclosure of human trafficking information by certain health care facilities, and protection for facility employees who report human trafficking.
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HB754 requires medical assistants to complete an HHSC-approved course on identifying, assisting and reporting victims of human trafficking, within a …
Official caption: Relating to human trafficking prevention, including training for medical assistants, disclosure of human trafficking information by certain health care facilities, and protection for facility employees who report human trafficking.
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HB879 requires the relevant Texas board to issue a license to a qualifying military veteran applying as a physician, physician assistant or nurse.
Official caption: Relating to the licensing of certain military veterans as health care providers.
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HB913 updates two statutory lists of Texas state mental-health facilities.
Official caption: Relating to certain state hospital names and the management of state hospitals.
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HB923 expands the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel from nine to 13 members.
Official caption: Relating to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel.
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HB1052 requires health benefit plans subject to Insurance Code Chapter 1455 to cover an otherwise covered telemedicine, teledentistry or telehealth s…
Official caption: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine, teledentistry, and telehealth appointments with an originating site or distant site located outside this state.
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For estimate requests made on or after September 1, 2025, HB1314 requires a covered health-care facility to email a requested estimate of its billed …
Official caption: Relating to price estimates and billing requirements for certain health care facilities.
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HB1327 extends the Harris County Hospital District health care provider participation program by moving both its operating-authority expiration and t…
Official caption: Relating to the continuation of a health care provider participation program by the Harris County Hospital District.
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An uninsured patient can request to pay a covered hospital directly, subject to limits tied to the hospital's insurance-related prices.
Official caption: Relating to direct payment for certain health care provided by a hospital.
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HB1700 requires the agencies regulating covered remote health services to adopt rules standardizing consent-record formats and retention.
Official caption: Relating to certain records of a health professional providing a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.
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HB1965 requires the Texas Veterans Commission to study how to improve and expand mental-health services through its Military Veteran Peer Network.
Official caption: Relating to a study on mental health services provided to veterans through the Texas Veterans Commission.
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HB2014 establishes a seven-member elected board with staggered four-year terms for the Somervell County Hospital District.
Official caption: Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Somervell County Hospital District.
