The Weekly Insight: February 12

Texas Insight’s Recent Reports

Senate Committee on Finance gathered to discuss Article II Agencies. Texas Insight covered:

• Health and Human Services Commission: LBB presentation and testimony and Agency presentation and testimony – Part I here; Part II here.
• The Department of State Health Services: LBB Presentation and testimony and Agency presentation and testimony – here.
• The Department of Family and Protective Services: LBB Presentation and testimony and Agency presentation and testimony – here.

Looking Ahead

• February 11, 2019
  • House Appropriations: Subcommittee on Article II
• February 12, 2019
  • Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup
  • Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
  • House Appropriations: Subcommittee on Article II
  • House Committee on Human Services
• February 13, 2019
  • House Appropriations: Subcommittee on Article II
• February 14, 2019
  • Medical Care Advisory Committee
  • House Appropriations: Subcommittee on Article II
• February 15, 2019
  • Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee

State and Federal Healthcare News

Texas

• “This is very personal to us”: Santa Fe survivors are expecting results from the Texas Legislature
• TexProtects: Child Protection Advocates to Descend on Texas Capitol February 12
• Voters in four states have approved Medicaid expansion by ballot. Will Texas do the same?

U.S.

• Arizona Nursing Center Where Incapacitated Woman Was Raped Will Now Stay Open
• ‘Church Of Safe Injection’ Offers Needles, Naloxone To Prevent Opioid Overdoses
• Task Force: To Prevent Postpartum Depression, At-Risk Women Should Get Counseling
• In Surprise Abortion Vote, John Roberts Avoids ‘Jolt to the Legal System’
• Anti-Abortion Activists Still See Their Best Chance in Years to Chip Away at Roe v. Wade
• FDA to crack down on dietary supplements
• Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana Abortion Law
• Democrats Unite to Begin Push to Protect Pre-Existing Condition Coverage
• Democratic White House hopeful hits Medicare for all as ‘bad opening offer’
• Safe Injection Site for Opioid Users Faces Trump Administration Crackdown
• Mumps confirmed in 7 detainees at ICE facility in Houston
• ‘A Match Into a Can of Gasoline’: Measles Outbreak Now an Emergency in Washington State
• Trump Plan to Stop Spread of H.I.V. Will Target ‘Hot Spot’ Areas
• New York City Cracks Down on CBD Edibles, Saying the Cannabis Derivative Is Unsafe