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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids."
description: "Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 2454"
citation: "Texas HB 2454 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "CONTINUING EDUCATION (S0234)", "DENTISTS & DENTISTRY (S0158)", "MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)", "NURSES & NURSE AIDES (S2704)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (S0081)", "PHYSICIANS (S1282)", "DENTAL EXAMINERS", "STATE BOARD OF (V0098)", "MEDICAL BOARD", "TEXAS (V0644)", "NURSING", "TEXAS BOARD OF (V0776)", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT BOARD", "TEXAS (V0909)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hughes", "Minjarez", "Price", "Sheffield", "Thompson, Senfronia", "VanDeaver"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dbf5fd5-701f-40db-8c10-290419051ead"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02400_HB02499/HB 2454.xml"
source_hash: "450f3b08bdc40c88b50b9ba57feb6362dec43a1ecfe370ff7f0040512ab100ac"
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 2454 (86) — Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids.
## 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/HB02454I.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **1364** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Minjarez — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)
- Sheffield — primary (person)
- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
- VanDeaver — primary (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
- Thierry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-20** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-03-20** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-08** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-08** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-25** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-02** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-03** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2019-05-14** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-14** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-14** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-19** 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
- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **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 reported
- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** 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/8dbf5fd5-701f-40db-8c10-290419051ead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).