HB4224 • 2025

Relating to information regarding consumer access to health care records.

Healthcare

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Hull | Howard
Last action: 2025-06-20
Official status: 06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date: 2025-06-20

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Relating to information regarding consumer access to health care records.

What This Bill Does

Relating to information regarding consumer access to health care records.

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Bill History

2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Signed by the Governor
2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Effective on 9/1/25
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Sent to the Governor
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the House
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the Senate
2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online
Reported enrolled
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Laid before the Senate
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Senate passage reported
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Health & Human Services
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#1456
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Amended. 1-Hull
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment as amended
2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Public Health
2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to information regarding consumer access to health care records.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 4224 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 4224

AN ACT

relating to information regarding consumer access to health care

records.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 181, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 181.105 to read as follows:

Sec.

181.105.

REQUIRED INFORMATION REGARDING CONSUMER

ACCESS TO HEALTH RECORDS AND COMPLAINTS. (a)

Except as provided by

Subsection (b), a covered entity shall prominently post on the

entity's Internet website and at any entity facility detailed

instructions for a consumer to:

(1)

request the consumer's health care records from

the entity;

(2)

contact the disciplinary or licensing authority

for the covered entity; and

(3)

file a consumer complaint as described by Section

181.103.

(b)

This section does not apply to a covered entity that

conducts claims processing, data processing, data analysis,

utilization review, or billing on behalf of another covered entity

that provides health care services directly to consumers.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 4224 was passed by the House on May 6,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 4224 was passed by the Senate on May

25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor