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SB268 • 2025

Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

Vetoed

The latest official action shows the governor vetoed this bill. Check the bill history to see whether lawmakers later overrode that veto.

Sponsor
Perry
Last action
2025-06-22
Official status
06/22/2025 E Vetoed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

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Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Vetoed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  3. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  4. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  5. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  7. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conference committee report

  8. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#4144

  9. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conference committee report

  11. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  12. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Remarks ordered printed

  13. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  14. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Conference committee report filed

  15. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Conf. Comm. Report distributed

  16. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House grants request for conference committee

  17. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees

  18. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House grants request for conf comm-reported

  19. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees-reported

  20. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  21. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Read

  22. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate refuses to concur

  23. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate requests conference committee

  24. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees

  25. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate refuses to concur-reported

  26. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate requests conference committee-reported

  27. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees-reported

  28. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  29. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Howard

  30. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed as amended

  31. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3916

  32. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  33. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage as amended reported

  34. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  35. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Oliverson

  36. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3818

  37. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  38. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

  39. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3819

  40. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  41. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  42. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  43. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  44. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  45. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  46. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  47. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote reconsidered in committee

  48. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  49. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  50. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote reconsidered in committee

  51. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  52. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  53. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  54. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.

  55. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  56. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  57. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  58. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  59. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  60. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  61. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Health

  62. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  63. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  64. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  65. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  66. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  67. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  68. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  69. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  70. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  71. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  72. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  73. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  74. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  75. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  76. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  77. 2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  78. 2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  79. 2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  80. 2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  81. 2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  82. 2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  83. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  84. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  85. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  86. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 268 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 268

AN ACT

relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health

care practitioners.

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 112, Occupations Code, is amended by

adding Subchapter C to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER C. COMPLAINT REFERRALS

Sec.

112.101.

COMPLAINTS AGAINST HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER

LICENSED BY DIFFERENT LICENSING ENTITY. (a) Notwithstanding any

other law, a licensing entity that receives a complaint concerning

a health care practitioner who holds a license issued by a different

licensing entity shall promptly forward a copy of the complaint to

that licensing entity.

(b)

A licensing entity may not take disciplinary action

based on a complaint against a health care practitioner who holds a

license issued by a different licensing entity unless that

licensing entity refers the complaint back to the licensing entity

that received the complaint for investigation and resolution.

(c)

This section does not preclude a licensing entity from

taking disciplinary action against a health care practitioner

licensed by that entity.

Sec.

112.102.

COMPLAINTS AGAINST HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER

ALLEGING CERTAIN OFFENSES. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a

licensing entity that receives a complaint concerning a health care

practitioner that credibly accuses the practitioner of conduct

constituting an offense that resulted in death or serious bodily

injury, as those terms are defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, to a

person shall promptly forward a copy of the complaint to an

appropriate law enforcement agency.

(b)

This section does not preclude a licensing entity from

investigating a complaint or taking disciplinary action against a

health care practitioner described by Subsection (a) and licensed

by that entity.

SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to

a complaint filed against a health care practitioner on or after the

effective date of this Act. A complaint filed before the effective

date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the

complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for

that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 268 passed the Senate on

April 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0;

May 29, 2025, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and

requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 30, 2025, House

granted request of the Senate; June 1, 2025, Senate adopted

Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 19,

Nays 12.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 268 passed the House, with

amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 120,

Nays 14, two present not voting; May 30, 2025, House granted

request of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee;

June 1, 2025, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the

following vote: Yeas 79, Nays 46, two present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor