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Bill Relating to vision care benefits, including participation of optometrists and therapeutic optometrists in vision care or managed care plans. Relating to vision care benefits, including participation of optometrists and therapeutic optometrists in vision care or managed care plans. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 3211 Texas HB 3211 (89R)
bill
EYECARE & VISION (S0053)
Health Care Providers (I0387)
Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)
MANAGED CARE (S0454)
OPTOMETRY & OPTOMETRISTS (S9811)
THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS (S0051)
enacted
Dean
Gerdes
Harless
Lalani
Middleton
Phelan
5 54 3 2025-02-24 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/3eba8617-5040-42d2-842b-815d6ae79b9f ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03200_HB03299/HB 3211.xml d84085db43c318bf0341ee69af3182df8f6fe251a53da51bee31ae7b4701c096 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 3211 (89R) — Relating to vision care benefits, including participation of optometrists and therapeutic optometrists in vision care or managed care plans.

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

  • passage — 1421 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1350 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3211 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Dean — primary (person)
  • Gerdes — primary (person)
  • Harless — primary (person)
  • Lalani — primary (person)
  • Middleton — primary (person)
  • Phelan — primary (person)
  • Ashby — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
  • Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
  • Buckley — cosponsor (person)
  • Bucy — cosponsor (person)
  • Collier — cosponsor (person)
  • Cook — cosponsor (person)
  • Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
  • Gámez — cosponsor (person)
  • Hickland — cosponsor (person)
  • Isaac — cosponsor (person)
  • Little — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
  • Lujan — cosponsor (person)
  • Manuel — cosponsor (person)
  • Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
  • Orr — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Pierson — cosponsor (person)
  • Plesa — cosponsor (person)
  • Rodríguez Ramos — cosponsor (person)
  • Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
  • Shofner — cosponsor (person)
  • Slawson — cosponsor (person)
  • Spiller — cosponsor (person)
  • Wharton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-24 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-20 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-20 Referred to Insurance referral-committee
  • 2025-03-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-26 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-03-26 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-03 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-04-03 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2025-04-03 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-10 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-04-10 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-04-11 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-04-28 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-04-30 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-05-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-01 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-01 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-01 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-01 Record vote
  • 2025-05-01 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-02 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-02 Passed as amended amendment-passage, passage
  • 2025-05-02 Record vote
  • 2025-05-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-05 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-05-05 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-05-06 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-05-06 Referred to Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-05-14 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-05-14 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-14 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-05-14 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-05-15 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-15 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-05-19 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-19 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-19 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-05-20 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-20 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-05-20 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2025-05-20 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-20 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-05-20 Record vote
  • 2025-05-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-20 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-20 Record vote
  • 2025-05-21 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-21 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-21 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-22 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-22 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-20 Filed without the Governor's signature became-law
  • 2025-06-20 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3eba8617-5040-42d2-842b-815d6ae79b9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).