HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    S/C-Maternal Hlth/Menopause/Access-Evidence-Based Medicine 

TIME & DATE:  10:00 AM, Friday, November 6, 2026 

PLACE:       E2.030 
CHAIR:       Rep. Katrina Pierson 

The House Subcommittee on Maternal Health, Menopause, and Access to Evidence-Based Medicine will meet to hear invited testimony only on the following interim charges:

Study opportunities to increase preventive efforts and early detection of hormone imbalances, including the provision of baseline reproductive hormone testing. Study endometriosis as a hormone related condition, including barriers to timely diagnosis and opportunities for earlier detection and intervention.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the Healthy Texas Women and related women’s health programs and identify ways to enhance services for eligible Texans. Review the new Rural Texas Maternal Health Rescue Plan and how these programs can help expand maternal care in rural Texas.

Review ways to reduce administrative barriers for new parents, including automatic insurance enrollment of newborns.

Review parental leave policies for state employees.  Specifically, consider if additional leave should be permitted when a newborn is admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Electronic public comment will be available for:

Endometriosis

The Rural Texas Maternal Health Assembly

Automatic insurance enrollment of newborns

Parental leave policies for state employees

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=c413

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.