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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relating to allowing Medicaid managed care organizations to engage in marketing about the availability of certain private health benefit plan coverage."
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description: "Relating to allowing Medicaid managed care organizations to engage in marketing about the availability of certain private health benefit plan coverage."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
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legislature: "Texas Legislature"
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session: "89R"
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identifier: "SB 963"
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citation: "Texas SB 963 (89R)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["ADVERTISING (S2680)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)", "Human Services--General (I0920)", "Human Services--Medical Assistance (I0905)", "MANAGED CARE (S0454)", "MEDICAID (S4885)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Hughes", "Manuel"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 54
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-01-29"
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last_action: "2025-06-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42511d66-d329-4d27-88ea-7301e83bb47c"
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source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 963.xml"
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source_hash: "ab46a193aa42926bb41e1ea1f12d94c146197d4e6551c0d199c7552a934039a1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
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---
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# Texas SB 963 (89R) — Relating to allowing Medicaid managed care organizations to engage in marketing about the availability of certain private health benefit plan coverage.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00963I.HTM)
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2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00963E.HTM)
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3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00963H.HTM)
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4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00963S.HTM)
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5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00963F.HTM)
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## Votes
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- passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
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- passage — **119–27** (pass) · lower
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- passage — **124–18** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Hughes — primary (person)
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- Manuel — primary (person)
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- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-29** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-29** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-02-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-02-13** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-12** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2025-03-12** Considered in public hearing
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- **2025-03-12** Testimony taken in committee
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- **2025-03-12** Left pending in committee
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- **2025-03-26** Considered in public hearing
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- **2025-03-26** Vote taken in committee
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- **2025-03-31** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-31** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
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- **2025-03-31** Committee report printed and distributed
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- **2025-04-10** Co-author authorized
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- **2025-04-10** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
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- **2025-04-10** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
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- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-10** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2025-04-10** Three day rule suspended
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- **2025-04-10** Record vote
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- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-10** Passed `passage`
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- **2025-04-10** Record vote
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- **2025-04-10** Reported engrossed
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- **2025-04-14** Received from the Senate `introduction`
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- **2025-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-04-17** Referred to Human Services `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
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- **2025-04-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-25** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
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- **2025-04-28** Committee report distributed
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- **2025-04-28** Committee report sent to Calendars
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- **2025-04-28** Laid out in lieu of companion
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- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-28** Passed to 3rd reading
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- **2025-04-28** Record vote
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- **2025-04-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
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- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29** Amended `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-04-29** Passed as amended `amendment-passage, passage`
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- **2025-04-29** Record vote
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- **2025-04-29** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
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- **2025-04-29** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-05-21** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
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- **2025-05-21** Read
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- **2025-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
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- **2025-05-21** Record vote
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- **2025-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
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- **2025-05-22** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-05-22** Signed in the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-05-22** Signed in the House `passage`
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- **2025-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-20** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
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- **2025-06-20** Effective on 9/1/25 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42511d66-d329-4d27-88ea-7301e83bb47c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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