TMA keeps a watchful eye over the legislative landscape on behalf of Texas physicians during each legislative session. The association champions bills that benefit physicians and patients, and opposes those that threaten the patient-physician relationship.
To help educate lawmakers on the merits or harm of proposed legislation, TMA creates materials that quickly summarize key points to help legislators make informed decisions. Current flyers for the 2025 legislative session can be found on this page.
Senate Bill 2024 Protects Kids from E-Cigarettes
In the face of a vaping crisis, TMA supports SB 2024 as a proactive public health measure to protect youth.
Senate Bill 268 Undermines TMB'S Ability to Protect Patient Safety
SB 268 eviscerates the Texas Medical Board's ability to act swiftly when nonphysician health care practitioners are engaging in, or threatening to engage in, the unauthorized practice of medicine. This is a matter of patient safety.
Senate Bill 2881 Protects Kids from Harmful Social Media Practices
Social media companies have made billions of dollars by attracting and keeping children on their platforms using highly questionable methods. Common-sense regulations like Senate Bill 2881 are needed now to help keep children safe on these platforms, such as limiting screen time, preventing messages from unknown users, and protecting against targeted algorithms.
Senate Bill 125 Removes Physicians Autonomy to Practice Based on Medical Judgment, Training
CSHB 139 Creates a New Type of Health Insurance Plan That Fails to Provide Meaningful Coverage and Basic Protections
Senate Bill 95 Discourages Providing Immunizations by Expanding Lawsuit Opportunities Against Health Care Workers
Texas already has strong informed consent law and patients already have longstanding legal protections for health care treatments. The legislature should seek to support health care workers’ efforts to end the measles outbreak, not make it easier to sue them. SB 95 is not the answer.
Senate Bill 818 and House Bill 1906 Threaten Insurance Reforms, Patient Protections
As Texas strives for affordable, transparent, and innovative health insurance coverage, lawmakers must ensure those goals are not achieved at the expense of patient and physician protections and meaningful coverage patients need to get care. Senate Bill 818 by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) and House Bill 1906 by Rep. Dennis Paul (R-Houston) undercut such protections and coverage by giving health plans unfair market advantages and could undo the very insurance reforms this legislature seeks.
TMA State Advocacy
TMA's Key Issues
Last Updated On
May 27, 2025
Originally Published On
March 23, 2023