Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HB1 Conference Committee Summary Report for Article II. The Conference Committee Report for HB1 was filed and distributed on May 25th, just two days before the end of the 86th legislative session. The bill provides $250.7 billion all funds for the 2020-2021 biennium. This is $500 million below the House Bill and $3.0 billion above the Senate Bill. Find the full report here.
HB1 Conference Summary: Health and Human Services Commission. The Conference Committee on HB1 released the following decisions: Technical Adjustments and Cross Strategy Issues. The Conference Committee made the following technical adjustments to HB1: Adopting House Rider 2, Capital Budget, providing $1,840,000 in authority for new projects to align with decisions regarding capital budget authority for furniture, fixture, and equipment purchases for newly renovated units at state hospitals; and Amended House Rider 97/Senate Rider 94, Limitations on Transfer Authority, to allow HHSC to make certain transfers related to contingency contracts in excess of $1,000,000 or 20% of the originating item of appropriation with notification only… Find the full report here.
HB1 Conference Summary: DSHS. The Conference Committee for HB1 released their decisions for the Department of State Health Services. The issues decided by the Conference Committee are presented in this document. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
May 30, 2019: Policy Council for Children and Families
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Drug-price transparency bill likely headed to Gov. Abbott’s desk, stronger than many predicted
- In unanimous vote, Texas Senate moves forward an expansion of medical cannabis law
- Border Patrol quarantines migrants at McAllen facility amid flu outbreak
- This session’s biggest mental health bill got killed on a technicality — then resurrected
- Pain & Profit: Big Medicaid reforms snuck out of the Texas House, but will cost-cutting senators get on board?
- Paid sick-leave ordinances likely survived the Texas Legislature. But businesses still want to kill them.
US
- TSA approves cannabis-containing epilepsy drug for flights
- First Opioid Trial Takes Aim at Johnson & Johnson
- Cities And States Look To Big Pharma To Cover Costs Of The Opioid Epidemic
- ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ vs. ‘Forced Pregnancy’: The Language Wars of the Abortion Debate
- CBO: Medicare for All gives ‘many more’ coverage but ‘potentially disruptive’
- Tylenol For Infants And Children Is The Same. Why Does 1 Cost 3 Times More?
- Half of H.I.V. Patients Are Women. Most Research Subjects Are Men.
- Senators Alexander and Murray Release Bipartisan Plan To Lower Health Costs
- Poll: Majority of voters oppose state abortion restrictions like those in Georgia, Alabama
- New measles cases reported in outbreak that touches 26 states
- Surprise Medical Bills Are Driving People Into Debt: Will Congress Act To Stop Them?