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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to prices charged by a medical staffing services agency during certain designated public health disaster periods; providing a civil penalty."
+description: "Relating to prices charged by a medical staffing services agency during certain designated public health disaster periods; providing a civil penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "88"
+identifier: "SB 401"
+citation: "Texas SB 401 (88)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)", "Business & Commerce--Trade Practices (I0006)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Health--General (I0385)", "NURSES & NURSE AIDES (S2704)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (S0081)", "SURGICAL ASSISTANTS (S0468)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Harless", "Kolkhorst"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-12"
+last_action: "2023-06-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b385249d-555d-4905-ad54-1cf5e532a255"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 401.xml"
+source_hash: "b9663308a3018e08921f1e3bd67e42e2b77782a2d19fef95f00adb87eecbe29c"
+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 401 (88) — Relating to prices charged by a medical staffing services agency during certain designated public health disaster periods; providing a civil penalty.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00401I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00401E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00401H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00401S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00401F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **128–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Harless — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-02-15** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-02-15** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2023-03-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-03-15** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2023-03-15** Vote taken in committee
+- **2023-03-20** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-20** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-03-20** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2023-04-03** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-03** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2023-04-03** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-03** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-04-03** Three day rule suspended
+- **2023-04-03** Record vote
+- **2023-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-03** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-03** Record vote
+- **2023-04-03** Reported engrossed
+- **2023-04-03** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-04-17** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-05-15** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2023-05-15** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2023-05-15** Left pending in committee
+- **2023-05-18** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2023-05-18** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-19** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2023-05-19** Committee report distributed
+- **2023-05-20** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2023-05-20** Considered in Calendars
+- **2023-05-22** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2023-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2023-05-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-23** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Record vote
+- **2023-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-05-23** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-05-25** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2023-05-25** Read
+- **2023-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2023-05-25** Record vote
+- **2023-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2023-05-26** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-28** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-18** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
+- **2023-06-18** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b385249d-555d-4905-ad54-1cf5e532a255`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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