Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
House and Senate: HB1 and SCSHB1
- Policy Comparison, Items of Appropriation, and Riders: Article II
- Items of Appropriation and Riders: DSHS
House Insurance. Texas Insight was asked to report on HB2536, by Oliverson, relating to transparency related to drug costs. Read the full report here.
House Appropriations. The House Committee on Appropriations gathered to consider numerous bills. However, this report focuses on HB 2570 by Zerwas – Relating to the award of grants by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee and to the payment of claims related to those grants by the comptroller of public accounts. Read the full report here.
Looking Ahead
April 15, 2019: House Committee on Appropriations (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 15, 2019: Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 15, 2019: House Committee on Public Health (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 16, 2019: House Committee on Human Services (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 16, 2019: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 16, 2019: House Committee on Insurance (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 16, 2019: Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 17, 2019: House Committee on Public Health (Select/Requested Legislation)
April 17, 2019: STAR Kids Managed Care Advisory Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- For many Texas teachers, health insurance premiums are huge — but so are the hospital bills
- GOP support for outright ban on abortion apparently dropping as Rep. Tinderholt refuses to compromise
- Texas Senate approves two bills to override paid sick leave, local control over employment practices
- Ramos: House Bill 1710 passes in the house; helping Texans fight opioid addiction
- No, experts don’t consider marijuana a gateway drug. That, and five more fact checks from the Texas Legislature on weed.
- Texas could soon increase the legal age to buy tobacco, though active military members might be exempt
U.S.
- Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
- For Kids With Anxiety, Parents Learn To Let Them Face Their Fears
- 90 New Cases of Measles Reported in U.S. as Outbreak Continues Record Pace
- How Can We Be Sure Artificial Intelligence Is Safe For Medical Use?
- A. Officials, and the Nation, Battle an Unrelenting Tide of Veteran Suicides
- Supporters Sue To Open Safe Injection Site In Philadelphia, Citing Religious Freedom
- Doctors Use Electrical Implant to Aid Brain-Damaged Woman
- Republican State Lawmakers Split Over Anti-Abortion Strategy
- Medicare Aims to Expand Coverage of Cancer Care. But Is It Enough?
- Five things to know about the measles outbreak
- Rite Aid to Stop Selling E-Cigarettes, Citing Surge in Young Users
- Democratic proposals to overhaul health care: A 2020 primer
- Ohio’s Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Ban Is Latest Front in Fight Over Roe v. Wade
- Dem senator presses FCC to meet deadline for mental health hotline
- A New Rx for Diabetes: Lighten Up
- FDA pulls up Walmart, Kroger, others for selling tobacco to minors