HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Health Care Affordability, Select
TIME & DATE: 9:00 AM, Thursday, April 30, 2026
PLACE: E2.030
CHAIR: Rep. James B. Frank
The Committee will meet to take invited testimony only on the following topics and interim charges:
Evaluate health care cost drivers, including statutory, regulatory, and administrative burdens, and the impact of fraud, waste, and abuse.
Evaluate the impact insurance design, cost sharing, market structure, and payment policies have on consumers and employers.
Examine the impact of consolidation on patient choice, market competition, and price and value in health care services.
Review the level of consumer transparency in health care markets to ensure consumers have access to clear, accurate, and actionable information on prices, benefits, and out-of-pocket costs.
Electronic public comment will be available for:
Overall Health Care Spending
Insurance Market and Costs
Impact of Consolidation
Consumer Transparency
Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to
agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until
the hearing is adjourned by visiting:
https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c059
For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx
A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/
Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/
NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS
Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need assistance, such as a sign language interpreter, are requested to contact Stacey Nicchio at (512) 463-0850, 72 hours prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.