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BHEC staff outline bills to watch: compacts, licensure mobility, telehealth and Medicaid changes
Summary
BHEC staff told licensees they are tracking nearly 190 bills, highlighting proposals on counseling and social-work compacts, licensure mobility and telehealth registries, Medicaid payments for associate-level providers, and state budget requests that include funding for database and staffing needs.
Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council staff used a lunchtime webinar to list the bills the agency is tracking this session and to explain which measures could affect licensure, scope of practice, telehealth and agency operations.
The host said staff were tracking about 189 bills and run a daily bill search to identify measures that touch either BHEC's statutory authority or the professions it regulates. "If it has anything remotely to do with health care or mental health care, I have to read the bill to make sure that there's not some provision in there that…
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