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Committee on Health & Human Services advances multiple bills; committee substitutes generally favorably reported
Summary
The Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services voted to advance a slate of committee substitutes and bills to the Senate with recommendations that most do pass; several measures were left pending for public testimony. Multiple committee substitutes were adopted by voice vote or roll call during the session.
The Senate Committee on Health & Human Services on a morning session adopted and favorably reported a broad package of committee substitutes and bills, voting each up or leaving several pending for public testimony and formal floor action.
The action included adoption of a committee substitute to Senate Bill 493 (pharmacy gag-clause language) and numerous other committee substitutes and bills across health and human services topics. Votes were recorded by roll call for many items; where a roll call appears in the transcript, that tally is reported below. Several bills were left pending for invited and public testimony later in the hearing.
The committee considered and moved forward committee substitutes and recommendations for the following items (vote tallies shown where recorded in the transcript):
- Senate Bill 493 (committee substitute) — committee substitute adopted; committee passage recorded as "There being 5 ayes and no nays, committee substitute Senate Bill 493 is favorably passed." (transcript roll call indicating 5 ayes). - Senate Bill 660 (committee substitute) — committee substitute to SB 660 favorably reported; transcript shows "There being 7 ayes, 0 nays. Committee substitute to Senate Bill 660 is favorably reported." - Senate Bill 1822 (committee substitute) — committee substitute favorably reported; transcript shows "There being 7 ayes, 1 nay, committee substitute to Senate Bill 18 22 is favorably reported." - Senate Bill 1122 (listed as "11 22") — reported favorably, "being 6 ayes, 2 nays." - Senate Bill 619 — reported favorably, "There being 6 ayes, 2 nays." - Senate Bill 921 (committee substitute) — committee substitute favorably reported, "There being 6 ayes, 2 nays." - Senate Bill 922 — favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 1332 (listed as "13 32") — favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 963 (committee substitute) — committee substitute favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 1098 — favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 1307 (committee substitute) — committee substitute favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 984 — favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays." - Senate Bill 1084 — favorably reported, "There being 8 ayes, 0 nays."
Several bills with longer invited testimony were left pending for public testimony later in the hearing, including bills on the central registry (SB 1195 and SB 1196), nursing and assisted living backup power (SB 481), single-source continuum contractor receivership (SB 2034), diabetic amputation study (SB 1677), and others.
The committee chair noted that some committee substitutes had been received late and that several items would receive a formal committee vote at the committee’s formal meeting the following day. The chair closed witness registration for the bills on the calendar and recessed the committee for a short break before continuing invited testimony and public testimony later in the hearing.
Ending: Committee members and the chair indicated plans to continue formal votes and to follow up with offices and stakeholders on pending committee substitutes and public testimony schedules.
