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
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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
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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
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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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