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Bill Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists. Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 1696 Texas HB 1696 (88)
bill
Health Care Providers (I0387)
INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER OF (V0396)
Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)
MANAGED CARE (S0454)
OPTOMETRY & OPTOMETRISTS (S9811)
PHYSICIANS (S1282)
THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS (S0051)
enacted
Buckley
Cook
Gerdes
Hughes
Noble
Oliverson
5 55 3 2023-01-26 2023-06-14 openstates ocd-bill/999a3691-75fd-4c5e-abed-32e274db1c0d ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01600_HB01699/HB 1696.xml 0e836c16688a7c4478e0f4990763edd4acc2ccfe00c7642c712b81e15bd9a3db 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 1696 (88) — Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 1696 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1430 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1244 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Buckley — primary (person)
  • Cook — primary (person)
  • Gerdes — primary (person)
  • Hughes — primary (person)
  • Noble — primary (person)
  • Oliverson — primary (person)
  • Ashby — cosponsor (person)
  • Bailes — cosponsor (person)
  • Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
  • Bryant — cosponsor (person)
  • Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
  • Burns — cosponsor (person)
  • Cain — cosponsor (person)
  • Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
  • Gámez — cosponsor (person)
  • Herrero — cosponsor (person)
  • Jetton — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
  • Manuel — cosponsor (person)
  • Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
  • Middleton — cosponsor (person)
  • Orr — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Price — cosponsor (person)
  • Raney — cosponsor (person)
  • Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
  • Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
  • Toth — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-26 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-07 Referred to Insurance referral-committee
  • 2023-03-28 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-28 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2023-03-28 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-03-28 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-11 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2023-04-11 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-26 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-04-26 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-04-26 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-04 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-06 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-06 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-05-06 Record vote
  • 2023-05-06 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-08 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-08 Passed as amended amendment-passage, passage
  • 2023-05-08 Record vote
  • 2023-05-08 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-08 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-09 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-11 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-11 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-05-15 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-15 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-15 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-15 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-05-16 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2023-05-17 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-17 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-21 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-21 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-21 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-23 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-24 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-23 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-23 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-23 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-23 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-23 Record vote
  • 2023-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-23 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-23 Record vote
  • 2023-05-23 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-25 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-26 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-14 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/999a3691-75fd-4c5e-abed-32e274db1c0d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).