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HB4535 • 2025

Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

Enacted

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

Sponsor
McQueeney | Capriglione | Bonnen | Hull | Patterson
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  6. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  7. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage reported

  8. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  9. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  10. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  11. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  12. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  13. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  14. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  15. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  16. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  17. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  18. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  19. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  20. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  21. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  22. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  23. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  24. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  25. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  26. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  27. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  28. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  29. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  30. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  31. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  32. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2611

  33. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  34. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  35. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  36. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  37. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment fails of adoption. 1-Goodwin

  38. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2488

  39. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  40. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 2-Howard

  41. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment withdrawn. 3-Wu

  42. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment as amended

  43. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2489

  44. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  45. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  46. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/14/25 7:55AM

  47. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  48. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  49. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  50. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  51. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  52. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  53. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  54. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  55. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  56. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  57. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  58. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  59. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Health

  60. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4535 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 4535

AN ACT

relating to COVID-19 vaccine administration requirements.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0086 to read as follows:

Sec.

161.0086.

COVID-19 VACCINATION ADMINISTRATION

REQUIREMENTS. (a) In this section:

(1)

"COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus

disease.

(2)

"Health care provider" means an individual

licensed or otherwise authorized by this state to administer

vaccines.

(b)

Before administering a COVID-19 vaccination to an

individual, a health care provider must obtain the individual's

written informed consent, or if the individual is a minor or lacks

the mental capacity to provide informed consent, the parent,

guardian, or conservator who may provide written informed consent

on the individual's behalf.

The informed consent required under

this section must include an acknowledgment that the individual

providing informed consent received the information sheet

described by Subsection (c).

(c)

The department shall develop a standardized information

sheet that includes information on:

(1)

the benefits and risks associated with COVID-19

vaccination, including potential side effects;

(2)

the expedited manner in which the COVID-19 vaccine

was developed;

(3)

whether long-term scientific studies have been

performed on the COVID-19 vaccine;

(4)

whether manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine are

subject to civil liability for any injuries caused by the vaccine;

and

(5)

the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting

System, including clear instructions for reporting any

vaccine-related injury or reaction.

(d)

The appropriate licensing authority may impose

disciplinary action on a health care provider who administers a

COVID-19 vaccination in violation of this section in the same

manner and using the same procedures as the authority uses to impose

disciplinary action on a provider who violates the authority's

licensing or other regulatory laws or rules.

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

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 4535 was passed by the House on May

15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 92, Nays 45, 3 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 4535 was passed by the Senate on May

25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays 8.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor