SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:     Health & Human Services 

TIME & DATE:   8:00 AM, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 

PLACE:         Senate Chamber 
CHAIR:         Senator Lois Kolkhorst 

 

 

The committee will meet to consider the following:

 

SB 397         Sparks                 
Relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

SB 481         Alvarado | et al.       
Relating to emergency preparedness and response plans for the continued care and safety of nursing facility and assisted living facility residents.

SB 596         West                   
Relating to reporting certain information regarding the placement of children and suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

SB 760         Kolkhorst              
Relating to an application for a ballot to be voted by mail submitted by certain residents of an assisted living facility, a nursing facility, or an intermediate care facility.

SB 855         Sparks | et al.         
Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.

SB 1195        Birdwell               
Relating to the procedures for removing names from the central registry of child abuse and neglect.

SB 1196        Birdwell               
Relating to the procedures and notice required before an individual's name is added to the central child abuse or neglect registry.

SB 1233        Hancock                
Relating to information regarding perinatal palliative care; creating an administrative penalty.

SB 1257        Hughes                 
Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.

SB 1318        Schwertner             
Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain health care practitioners.

SB 1368        Miles                  
Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for nursing facility and assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties.

SB 1388        Kolkhorst | et al.      
Relating to family support services provided under a Health and Human Services Commission program.

SB 1398        Kolkhorst              
Relating to certain procedures in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship for a child placed in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and the provision of family preservation services and community-based foster care.

SB 1524        Middleton              
Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding weapons in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.

SB 1558        Perry                  
Relating to the liability of nonprofit entities contracted with the Department of Family and Protective Services or with a single source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services.

SB 1589        Hancock                
Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.

SB 1677        Menéndez               
Relating to a study by the Department of State Health Services on prevention and reduction of diabetes-related amputation.

SB 1792        Middleton              
Relating to the emergency possession of certain abandoned children by designated emergency infant care providers and the termination of parental rights to those children.

SB 2034        Paxton                 
Relating to the receivership of a single-source continuum contractor providing child welfare services.

Public testimony is limited to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please provide 20 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee clerk during the hearing.

 

 

 

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