---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer."
description: "Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 1584"
citation: "Texas HB 1584 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions (I0383)", "Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)", "CANCER (S0658)", "MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckingham", "Cole", "Kacal", "King, Ken", "Thompson, Senfronia", "Zedler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 65
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/447a98ed-2774-4121-abcb-284da71a3b9d"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01500_HB01599/HB 1584.xml"
source_hash: "0a4820e6e99521ae3df58cb5306b943b203581ac3419c861c74a2810a3367784"
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 1584 (86) — Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer.

## 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/HB01584I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **115–24** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **126–19** (pass) · lower
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **115–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckingham — primary (person)
- Cole — primary (person)
- Kacal — primary (person)
- King, Ken — primary (person)
- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
- Zedler — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-02** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-02** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-02** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-16** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-16** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-23** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-23** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-24** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-03** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-06** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-06** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-07** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-10** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** 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
- **2019-05-21** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-22** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-22** Not again placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **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** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-24** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-26** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-15** Filed without the Governor's signature
- **2019-06-15** 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/447a98ed-2774-4121-abcb-284da71a3b9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).