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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to health benefit coverage provided by certain health benefit plans for telemedicine medical services and telehealth services."
+description: "Relating to health benefit coverage provided by certain health benefit plans for telemedicine medical services and telehealth services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 3345"
+citation: "Texas HB 3345 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)", "TELEMEDICINE (S0219)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Guillen", "Hughes", "Lambert", "Lucio III", "Paul", "Price"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 51
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d56510bc-5a47-4973-a7e5-fc54658f70b9"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03300_HB03399/HB 3345.xml"
+source_hash: "e14b1da5e0c33875f1d6882a04903ef74a59128b106c62700c41a9a2472758fc"
+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 3345 (86) — Relating to health benefit coverage provided by certain health benefit plans for telemedicine medical services and telehealth services.
+
+## 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/HB03345I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **135–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Guillen — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Lambert — primary (person)
+- Lucio III — primary (person)
+- Paul — primary (person)
+- Price — primary (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-18** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-18** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-09** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-09** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-09** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-15** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-18** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-24** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-24** Postponed
+- **2019-05-01** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-01** Postponed
+- **2019-05-07** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-07** Statement of Leg. Intent Recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-07** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-08** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-08** Record vote
+- **2019-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-08** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-10** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Posting rule suspended
+- **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
+- **2019-05-22** 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
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-14** 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/d56510bc-5a47-4973-a7e5-fc54658f70b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+