Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
Appropriations. The House Committee on Appropriations gathered to discuss HB4, relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction, including direction regarding reimbursement, and adjustment authority regarding appropriations. Click here to read the full report.
Public Health. The House Committee on Public Health gathered to consider HB 460 | Shaheen – Relating to the dispensing of certain drugs by physicians; HB 800 | Howard | et al. – Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan; and HB 1225 | Guillen – Relating to the re-creation of the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force. Find the full report here.
Appropriations. The House Committee on Appropriations released Article II rider proposals and decisions. Read the full report here.
Senate Health and Human Services. The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services gathered to consider: SB 195 Perry | Relating to collecting and reporting by the Department of Family and Protective Services of certain information relating to certain alcohol and controlled substance use; SB 355 West | et al. Relating to developing a strategic plan to ensure the provision of prevention and early intervention services complies with federal law; SB 363 Watson | Relating to access to certain controlled substance prescription information; SB 420 Buckingham | Relating to dispenser requirements for refilling prescriptions for certain controlled substances; and more. Follow this link to read TXI’s coverage on the legislation presented at the meeting.
Senate Health and Human Services. On March 5th, SB10 – relating to the creation of the Texas Mental Health Care Consortium – was passed to third reading and reported as engrossed. Follow this link to read Texas Insight’s full report.
House Appropriations Committee: Article II Mark-Up – HHSC. Decisions as of March 4, 2019 here.
House Appropriations Committee: Article II Mark-Up – DSHS, DFPS. Decisions as of March 4, 2019 here.
Looking Ahead
March 11, 2019: House Committee on Appropriations
March 12, 2019: House Committee on Human Services (partial)
March 13, 2019: House Committee on Public Health (partial)
March 15, 2019: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Explosions from unregulated pipelines can kill in Texas while energy companies go unpunished
- Texas lawmaker whose bill allowed medical cannabis oil wants to expand its use in 2019
- Efforts to reform Marijuana laws pick up steam at the Texas Capitol
- Texas Republican legislators unveil newborn protection act in the midst of national furor
- Baselice voter poll contradicts bulk of testimony on mandatory paid sick leave
- Push begins anew to raise the tobacco sale age from 18 to 21
- Anti-vaxxer parents are unwelcome at more Dallas clinics amid latest measles scare
U.S.
- How Much Difference Will Eli Lilly’s Half-Price Insulin Make?
- Cancer Patients Are Getting Robotic Surgery. There’s No Evidence It’s Better.
- HHS to divert up to $385M from health programs to shelter migrant children
- Prison authorities say they are investigating ‘pharma bro’ Shkreli
- Invisibilia: For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain
- An Unvaccinated Boy Got Tetanus. His Oregon Hospital Stay: 57 Days and $800,000.
- Iowa Supreme Court rules state’s Medicaid program must cover sex reassignment surgery
- Commentary: Can Oklahoma Eliminate Overdose Deaths?
- Trump Administration Targets ‘Secretive Nature’ of Health Care Pricing
- Unvaccinated student infects at least 21 people with measles in NYC
- Doctors Welcome New Depression Drug, Cautiously
- House Dems renew push for funding gun violence research at CDC
- Tennessee House Passes Bill to Ban Abortion After Detection of Fetal Heartbeat
- FDA chief’s resignation casts cloud over vaping crackdown
- Facebook Announces Plan to Curb Vaccine Misinformation
- Alabama man sues abortion clinic on behalf of unborn fetus he claims was his
- Deaths From Drugs and Suicide Reach a Record in the U.S.
- Gottlieb: Drug rebates not benefiting sicker patients
- Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Who as Justice Official Fought the Affordable Care Act
- Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say.
- Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions
- How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say
- An H.I.V. Cure: Answers to 4 Key Questions
- One More Time, With Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism