---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to health benefit coverage for hearing aids for children and adults."
description: "Relating to health benefit coverage for hearing aids for children and adults."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "HB 109"
citation: "Texas HB 109 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (S0124)", "Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, Julie", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-11-14"
last_action: "2023-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bbc9410-f0ef-4113-b9f7-bcdafed01de3"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00100_HB00199/HB 109.xml"
source_hash: "fcab854c572701ea878066e9d844e63070edec608f80175d4d0a295aaf26c355"
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 109 (88) — Relating to health benefit coverage for hearing aids for children and adults.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00109I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00109E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00109H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00109S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00109F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **143–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson, Julie — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Plesa — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-11-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-21** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-03-21** Left pending in committee
- **2023-03-28** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-28** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-03-28** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Committee report distributed
- **2023-04-06** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2023-04-17** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2023-04-20** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Passed to engrossment
- **2023-04-20** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Record vote
- **2023-04-20** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-20** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-24** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2023-04-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Posting rule suspended
- **2023-04-25** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-25** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-26** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-27** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-27** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-27** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-27** Record vote
- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Record vote
- **2023-04-27** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-04-28** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-13** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bbc9410-f0ef-4113-b9f7-bcdafed01de3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).