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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer."
+description: "Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 1584"
+citation: "Texas HB 1584 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions (I0383)", "Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)", "CANCER (S0658)", "MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buckingham", "Cole", "Kacal", "King, Ken", "Thompson, Senfronia", "Zedler"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 65
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-02-11"
+last_action: "2019-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/447a98ed-2774-4121-abcb-284da71a3b9d"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01500_HB01599/HB 1584.xml"
+source_hash: "0a4820e6e99521ae3df58cb5306b943b203581ac3419c861c74a2810a3367784"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas HB 1584 (86) — Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB01584I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **115–24** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **126–19** (pass) · lower
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **115–24** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buckingham — primary (person)
+- Cole — primary (person)
+- Kacal — primary (person)
+- King, Ken — primary (person)
+- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
+- Zedler — primary (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-11** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-04** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-02** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-02** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-02** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-02** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-16** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-23** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-23** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-24** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-03** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-06** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-06** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-06** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Record vote
+- **2019-05-07** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-07** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-10** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-16** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-05-16** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-20** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-21** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Not again placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-24** Record vote
+- **2019-05-24** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-24** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-26** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-15** Filed without the Governor's signature
+- **2019-06-15** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/447a98ed-2774-4121-abcb-284da71a3b9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+