---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the frequency and location of certain meetings required by a prescriptive authority agreement."
description: "Relating to the frequency and location of certain meetings required by a prescriptive authority agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 278"
citation: "Texas HB 278 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "REGISTERED NURSES (N8312)", "NURSES & NURSE AIDES (S2704)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (S0081)", "PHYSICIANS (S1282)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "Oliverson", "Perry", "Price", "Schaefer", "Springer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 43
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-12"
last_action: "2019-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a46677b-7b37-4649-ae17-a750e5516e50"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00200_HB00299/HB 278.xml"
source_hash: "d9ab4ad9a366d0602fa938d4d0d309cdafc470d35e810c538a82e7d04d956021"
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 278 (86) — Relating to the frequency and location of certain meetings required by a prescriptive authority agreement.

## 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/HB00278I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Coleman — primary (person)
- Oliverson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)
- Schaefer — primary (person)
- Springer — primary (person)
- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- González, Mary — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-19** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-18** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-03-18** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-03-28** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-01** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-04-08** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2019-04-12** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2019-04-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-12** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-12** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-12** Record vote
- **2019-04-12** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-15** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-16** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-16** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-24** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-24** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-03** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-03** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-03** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-03** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-03** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-03** Record vote
- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-03** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Record vote
- **2019-05-03** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-05** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-06** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-06** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-06** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16** 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/1a46677b-7b37-4649-ae17-a750e5516e50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).