---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to physician and health care provider directories, preauthorization, utilization review, independent review, and peer review for certain health benefit plans and workers' compensation coverage."
description: "Relating to physician and health care provider directories, preauthorization, utilization review, independent review, and peer review for certain health benefit plans and workers' compensation coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 1742"
citation: "Texas SB 1742 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)", "Interim Studies (I0448)", "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS (S0853)", "LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR (S0096)", "PHYSICIANS (S1282)", "SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (S0306)", "INSURANCE", "TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V0006)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, Julie", "Menéndez"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 80
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0987680c-7712-4045-9c4e-41a6d22e036e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01700_SB01799/SB 1742.xml"
source_hash: "a37d085c1cbdb7aee58489ac9c8eb9a25846d643b14b6a963d3f45ef2259378c"
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 1742 (86) — Relating to physician and health care provider directories, preauthorization, utilization review, independent review, and peer review for certain health benefit plans and workers' compensation coverage.

## 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/SB01742I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **104–37** (fail) · upper
- passage — **117–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson, Julie — primary (person)
- Menéndez — primary (person)
- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-09** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-09** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-09** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-11** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-16** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-16** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-17** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-26** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-26** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-26** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-26** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-26** Record vote
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-26** Record vote
- **2019-04-26** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-26** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-01** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-09** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-16** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-16** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-05-17** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-17** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-20** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-20** Read
- **2019-05-20** Senate refuses to concur
- **2019-05-20** Senate requests conference committee
- **2019-05-20** Senate appoints conferees
- **2019-05-20** Senate refuses to concur-reported
- **2019-05-20** Senate requests conference committee-reported
- **2019-05-20** Senate appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-22** House grants request for conference committee
- **2019-05-22** House appoints conferees
- **2019-05-22** House grants request for conf comm-reported
- **2019-05-22** House appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-25** Conference committee report filed
- **2019-05-25** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts resolution to go outside bounds
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-26** House adopts resolution to go outside bounds
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-27** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
- **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/0987680c-7712-4045-9c4e-41a6d22e036e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).