** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Health & Human Services 

TIME & DATE:   1:30 PM or upon adjournment/recess
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 

PLACE:         Senate Chamber 
CHAIR:         Senator Lois Kolkhorst 

The committee will meet to consider the following:

HB 163         Cortez | et al.          SP: Blanco
Relating to the possession and administration of an epinephrine auto-injector by certain entities.

HB 216         Harris Davila | et al.   SP: Hughes
Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.

HB 721         Leo Wilson | et al.      SP: Middleton
Relating to the applicability of certain laws requiring health care cost disclosures by health benefit plan issuers and administrators.

HB 2035        Oliverson | et al.       SP: Sparks
Relating to notice provided by a chemical dependency treatment facility to the parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a minor refused admission to the facility.

HB 2038        Oliverson | et al.       SP: Sparks
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.

HB 3057        Landgraf                SP: Sparks
Relating to health benefit plan coverage for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

HB 3153        Kerwin | et al.          SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to hiring and employment requirements for persons in direct contact with children at certain facilities.

HB 3233        Harris                  SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to patient data maintained by pharmacy benefit managers.

HB 3595        Barry | et al.           SP: Perry
Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties.

HB 3801        Orr | et al.             SP: Cook
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.

HB 3812        Bonnen | et al.          SP: Hancock
Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and the direction of utilization review by physicians.

HB 4076        Leach | et al.           SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to prohibiting organ transplant recipient discrimination on the basis of vaccination status.

HB 4129        Davis, Aicha | et al.    SP: Paxton
Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 4377        Villalobos | et al.      SP: Hall
Relating to the retention of certain genetic material and genetic information by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 4535        McQueeney | et al.       SP: Hancock
Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

HB 4666        Manuel | et al.          SP: Hancock
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.

HB 4730        Hull                    SP: Hancock
Relating to the voluntary relinquishment of parental rights, adoption, and the regulation of child-placing agencies.

HB 4743        Bonnen | et al.          SP: Campbell
Relating to the issuance of a single license for a hospital and a mobile stroke unit of the hospital.

HB 4903        Harris Davila | et al.   SP: Birdwell
Relating to the establishment of the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative and the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative Commission.

HB 5149        Villalobos | et al.      SP: Hall
Relating to restricting the collection and use of DNA samples from children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 5155        Rose | et al.            SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to the continuation of the maternal opioid misuse model of care for certain Medicaid recipients.

Public testimony will be limited to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please provide 20 copies to the Committee Clerk with your name on each.

Bills deleted after last posting:

HB 1534

** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **

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