Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HB1 & SCSHB1:
- House and Senate Side-by-Side: HHSC Riders
- House and Senate Side-by-Side: HHSC Items of Appropriation
- House and Senate: Summary and Comparison of HB1 and SCSHB1
Senate Health and Human Services. The committee gathered to consider SB 438 Nelson | et al. Relating to the repeal of certain time limitations on the award of grants by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee; SB 572 Kolkhorst | et al. Relating to foods produced by a cottage food production operation and a cottage food industry study; SB 932 Hughes Relating to the regulation of certain direct sales of food to consumers and a limitation on the fee amount for certain permits; and more. Follow this link for TXI’s coverage of the meeting.
Senate Health and Human Services. The committee gathered to consider SCR21 Kolkhorst Approving the settlement agreement between the State of Texas and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights; SB 1056 Zaffirini Relating to the authority of physicians to delegate to certain pharmacists the implementation and modification of a patient’s drug therapy; SB 1636 Zaffirini Relating to an annual report prepared by the Health Professions Council; and more. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
April 9, 2019: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services – Select Bills
April 9, 2019: House Committee on Human Services – Select Bills
April 9, 2019: House Committee on Insurance – Select Bills
April 10, 2019: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services – Select Bills
April 10, 2019: House Committee on Public Health – Select Bills
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Despite setbacks, Sen. Creighton presses forward with ban on government mandated paid sick leave
- Lawmaker testifies on maternal mortality data registry bill
- Texas estimates it may owe feds $223 million after illegally decreasing special education funding
- Texas House signs off on medical schools for Sam Houston State, University of Houston
- Texas Senate moves to block local governments from partnering with abortion providers
U.S.
- What You Need to Know About Candida Auris
- 1st Living HIV-Positive Organ Donor Wants To Lift ‘The Shroud Of HIV Related Stigma’
- Cancer’s Trick for Dodging the Immune System
- E. Coli outbreak sickens 72 people in 5 states, CDC says
- House Condemns Trump Administration for Legal Attack on Health Law
- Oversight Republicans accuse Cummings of partisan drug pricing probe
- Scientists Thought They Had Measles Cornered. They Were Wrong.