---
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).