---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the sunset review of the Texas Health Services Authority and the repeal of certain provisions affecting the electronic exchange of health information."
description: "Relating to the sunset review of the Texas Health Services Authority and the repeal of certain provisions affecting the electronic exchange of health information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 3304"
citation: "Texas HB 3304 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "Health--General (I0385)", "Health--Privacy/Use of Information (I0389)", "Sunset—Required Reviews (I0021)", "TEXAS HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY (V0724)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckingham", "Price", "Raymond"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/681e0821-bd9a-451c-9e3f-0dd6c0cd09c6"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03300_HB03399/HB 3304.xml"
source_hash: "d9064f4fb2ff1988d2abe081e9de700df206fdb3786faeb1c8b2928b5342bd29"
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 3304 (86) — Relating to the sunset review of the Texas Health Services Authority and the repeal of certain provisions affecting the electronic exchange of health information.

## 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/HB03304I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **137–4** (fail) · upper
- passage — **137–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckingham — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)
- Raymond — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-18** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-24** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-29** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-29** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-30** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-01** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-05-03** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2019-05-07** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2019-05-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-07** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-10** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-15** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-19** 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 as amended reported
- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2019-05-24** Record vote
- **2019-05-24** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-29** 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/681e0821-bd9a-451c-9e3f-0dd6c0cd09c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).