---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a study and report regarding shortages in certain health professions."
description: "Relating to a study and report regarding shortages in certain health professions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 80"
citation: "Texas HB 80 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education--Higher--Health Institutions (I0237)", "Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Interim Studies (I0448)", "HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD", "TEXAS (V4280)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Howard", "Ortega", "Rodríguez", "Sheffield", "Stucky"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 53
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-11-12"
last_action: "2019-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ca12f75-51c2-4de4-88cf-8430352dbce1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 80.xml"
source_hash: "4d66f5d2ba404906cc61d9cba244522009efad7cefbc2654dc1c85208014f86b"
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 80 (86) — Relating to a study and report regarding shortages in certain health professions.

## 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/HB00080I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **19–12** (pass) · upper
- passage — **126–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Button — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Ortega — primary (person)
- Rodríguez — primary (person)
- Sheffield — primary (person)
- Stucky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-02-27** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-06** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-06** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-06** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-03-12** Committee report distributed
- **2019-03-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-03-13** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-11** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-15** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-15** Postponed
- **2019-04-15** Laid out as postponed business
- **2019-04-15** Postponed
- **2019-04-16** Laid out as postponed business
- **2019-04-16** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-16** Record vote
- **2019-04-16** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-17** Passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-23** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-24** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-10** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-10** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-13** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-17** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-20** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-20** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** 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/3ca12f75-51c2-4de4-88cf-8430352dbce1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).