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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to supportive palliative care."
+description: "Relating to supportive palliative care."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 916"
+citation: "Texas SB 916 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Health--General (I0385)", "Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions (I0383)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)", "PALLIATIVE CARE INTERDISCIPLINARY ADVISORY COUNCIL (V1132)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Zerwas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 73
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-20"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffad5ffe-6020-495e-b12c-4a6ab655f775"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 916.xml"
+source_hash: "f3cdcd3338c3d2ddf2b10871f92696caeb6323c7f4edcd9e849d8e197c058b9f"
+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 SB 916 (86) — Relating to supportive palliative care.
+
+## 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/SB00916I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **128–16** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Zerwas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-20** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-02-20** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-01** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-10** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-04-10** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-23** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-23** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-30** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-30** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-30** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-04-30** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-30** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-30** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-04-30** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-30** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-30** Record vote
+- **2019-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-30** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-30** Record vote
+- **2019-04-30** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-30** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-05-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-06** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-09** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-09** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-10** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-10** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-13** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-15** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-17** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-17** Constitutional three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-19** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-23** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-23** Read
+- **2019-05-23** Senate refuses to concur
+- **2019-05-23** Senate requests conference committee
+- **2019-05-23** Senate appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-23** Senate refuses to concur-reported
+- **2019-05-23** Senate requests conference committee-reported
+- **2019-05-23** Senate appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-23** House grants request for conference committee
+- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-23** House grants request for conf comm-reported
+- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Conference committee report filed
+- **2019-05-25** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
+- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-26** Record vote
+- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-26** House adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-26** Record vote
+- **2019-05-26** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-26** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffad5ffe-6020-495e-b12c-4a6ab655f775`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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