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Department of State Health Services
House/Senate Comparison, Items of Appropriation by Goal and Strategy, 86th Legislature.
Shaded items are items in disagreement.
Medicaid. Legislative Budget Office Staff: Medicaid is a jointly-funded State/Federal program providing health insurance primarily to low-income parents, non-disabled children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. As a…
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The House Appropriations Committee met to hear testimony on the following:
TEXAS INSIGHT’S RECENT REPORTS Budget/Policy Update on the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The Senate Committee on Finance gathered to discuss select Article I agencies. However, this report…
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Health and Human Services Commission House/Senate Comparison, Items of Appropriation by Goal and Strategy, 86th Legislature.
MEETING SUMMARY
Call to order: Roll was called. A quorum was present.
Approval of minutes from October 26, 2018: The minutes were approved.
New business
Public comment on drug classes and therapeutic and clinical drug reviews to be reviewed for the Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL):
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S.B. 1507, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, directed DSHS to reconvene the advisory panel established by H.B. 3793, 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013. The charge of the advisory panel is to…
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The Committee gathered to consider Article I agencies (partial). This report addresses only the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).[1]
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House and Senate Appropriations: Article II. Both the House and the Senate provide an All Funds Health and Human Services agencies total of $84.8 billion, an…
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The Senate Finance Committee held an organizational hearing today. No public testimony was accepted. Due to a lack of time, the presentation from the LBB will be continued tomorrow.
The Committee is chaired by Jane Nelson and the vice chair is Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa.
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