** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Public Health 

TIME & DATE:  12:00 PM, Monday, April 21, 2025 

PLACE:       E2.030 
CHAIR:       Rep. Gary VanDeaver 

 

The length of public testimony and the number of witnesses may be limited at the discretion of the chair.

 

HB 5141        Howard                                                
Relating to the lease of certain state property from the Department of State Health Services to Travis County.

HB 4638        Bonnen                                                
Relating to the Texas Pharmaceutical Initiative.

HB 3318        King                              Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to access to individualized investigational treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.

HB 5147        King                              Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to investigational stem cell treatment.

HB 2264        Schoolcraft                                           
Relating to information provided by friends and family for inclusion into certain patients' medical records and to health care professionals' duties when discharging certain patients from inpatient care.

HB 2035        Oliverson                                             
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 4813        Oliverson | et al.                                     
Relating to the scheduling of certain controlled substances in response to certain actions by the United States Food and Drug Administration with respect to those substances.

HB 4408        Dean                                                  
Relating to required reporting of information on the ownership and control of certain health care entities; providing a civil penalty; authorizing a fee.

HB 2684        Swanson | et al.                                       
Relating to information regarding perinatal palliative care; creating an administrative penalty.

HB 4014        Bucy | et al.                     Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to a study on the use of psychedelic therapies in the treatment of certain conditions.

HB 1621        Lujan                                                 
Relating to a matching grant program for technological enhancements at hospitals providing mental health care services.

HB 2300        Lalani                                                
Relating to the distribution of hookahs; creating a criminal offense.

HB 216         Harris Davila                                         
Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.

HB 3829        Curry                                                 
Relating to a study to review the animal friendly account.

HB 4466        Hickland                                              
Relating to restrictions on the fee assessed for issuance of certain birth records.

HB 1747        Campos                                                
Relating to the administration of funding for the coordination of mental health, substance use, and public health care services in this state.

HB 2284        Johnson                                               
Relating to the licensing and regulation of music therapists; requiring an occupational license; authorizing fees.

HB 3614        Pierson | et al.                                       
Relating to nurse profiles and certain information concerning nurses maintained on the Texas Board of Nursing's Internet website.

HB 2587        Olcott                                                
Relating to an annual report on certain uncompensated hospital care costs.

HB 3219        Shofner | et al.                                       
Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin.

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=c410

 

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/

 

 

 

 

Bills added after last posting:

HB 3318

HB 4014

HB 5147

 

**         See Committee Coordinator for previous versions         **
of this notice.

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