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Bill Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care. Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 855 Texas SB 855 (89R)
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FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF (V0461)
FOSTER CARE (S0064)
Health Care Providers (I0387)
Health--Children's Insurance (I0388)
Human Services--Child Services (I0895)
MANAGED CARE (S0454)
MEDICAID (S4885)
Minors--Health & Safety (I0533)
enacted
Frank
Sparks
5 48 2 2025-01-22 2025-05-21 openstates ocd-bill/c9f32d85-be05-40fd-b849-7682dee6ece6 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00800_SB00899/SB 855.xml 13f67e22141df790abb9b9cd01da702b6c3c3e531ea82efa3d93311a8b6dd2f3 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 855 (89R) — Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.

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 — 1450 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Frank — primary (person)
  • Sparks — primary (person)
  • Perry — cosponsor (person)
  • Shofner — cosponsor (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-22 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-22 Filed filing
  • 2025-01-29 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-02-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-02-13 Referred to Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-03-26 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-03-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-26 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-03-26 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-03 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-04-07 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-07 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-07 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-04-16 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-04-16 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-16 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-04-16 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-04-16 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-16 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-04-16 Record vote
  • 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-16 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-16 Record vote
  • 2025-04-16 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-17 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-22 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-22 Referred to Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-04-25 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-04-25 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-29 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-04-29 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-04-29 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-07 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2025-05-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-07 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-07 Record vote
  • 2025-05-07 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-08 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-08 Record vote
  • 2025-05-08 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-08 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-09 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-09 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-09 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-21 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9f32d85-be05-40fd-b849-7682dee6ece6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).