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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids."
+description: "Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2454"
+citation: "Texas HB 2454 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "CONTINUING EDUCATION (S0234)", "DENTISTS & DENTISTRY (S0158)", "MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)", "NURSES & NURSE AIDES (S2704)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (S0081)", "PHYSICIANS (S1282)", "DENTAL EXAMINERS", "STATE BOARD OF (V0098)", "MEDICAL BOARD", "TEXAS (V0644)", "NURSING", "TEXAS BOARD OF (V0776)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT BOARD", "TEXAS (V0909)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hughes", "Minjarez", "Price", "Sheffield", "Thompson, Senfronia", "VanDeaver"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-26"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dbf5fd5-701f-40db-8c10-290419051ead"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02400_HB02499/HB 2454.xml"
+source_hash: "450f3b08bdc40c88b50b9ba57feb6362dec43a1ecfe370ff7f0040512ab100ac"
+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 2454 (86) — Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids.
+
+## 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/HB02454I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **136–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Minjarez — primary (person)
+- Price — primary (person)
+- Sheffield — primary (person)
+- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
+- VanDeaver — primary (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
+- Thierry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-26** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-11** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-20** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-03-20** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-08** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Record vote
+- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-02** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-03** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-14** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-14** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-14** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-14** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-19** 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
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **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 reported
+- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** 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/8dbf5fd5-701f-40db-8c10-290419051ead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+