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SB904 • 2025

Relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

Relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Zaffirini
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 the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

Relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

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. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

  6. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  8. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  9. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read

  10. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  12. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage as amended reported

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  14. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Cunningham

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

  17. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  18. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  19. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  20. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3832

  21. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  22. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  23. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  24. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  25. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  26. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  27. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  28. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote reconsidered in committee

  29. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  30. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  31. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  32. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  33. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  34. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  35. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  36. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  37. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Health

  38. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  39. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  40. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  41. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  42. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  43. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  44. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  45. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  46. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  47. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  48. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  49. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  50. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  51. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  52. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  53. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  55. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  56. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  57. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  58. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  59. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  60. 2025-01-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  61. 2025-01-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument fitters and dispensers.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 904 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 904

AN ACT

relating to the licensing and regulation of hearing instrument

fitters and dispensers.

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

SECTION 1. Section 401.2021, Occupations Code, is amended

to read as follows:

Sec. 401.2021. RULES FOR HEARING INSTRUMENTS. With the

assistance of the advisory board [
and the Hearing Instrument

Fitters and Dispensers Advisory Board
], the commission shall adopt

rules to establish requirements for each sale of a hearing

instrument for purposes of this chapter [
and Chapter 402
]. The

rules must:

(1) address:

(A) the information and other provisions

required in each written contract for the purchase of a hearing

instrument;

(B) records that must be retained under this

chapter [
or Chapter 402
]; and

(C) guidelines for the 30-day trial period during

which a person may cancel the purchase of a hearing instrument; and

(2) require that the written contract and 30-day trial

period information provided to a purchaser of a hearing instrument

be in plain language designed to be easily understood by the average

consumer.

SECTION 2. Section 402.1021, Occupations Code, is amended

to read as follows:

Sec. 402.1021. RULES FOR HEARING INSTRUMENTS. With the

assistance of the advisory board [
and the Speech-Language

Pathologists and Audiologists Advisory Board
], the commission

shall adopt rules to establish requirements for each sale of a

hearing instrument for purposes of this chapter [
and Chapter 401
].

The rules must:

(1) address:

(A) the information and other provisions

required in each written contract for the purchase of a hearing

instrument;

(B) records that must be retained under this

chapter [
or Chapter 401
]; and

(C) guidelines for the 30-day trial period during

which a person may cancel the purchase of a hearing instrument; and

(2) require that the written contract and 30-day trial

period information provided to a purchaser of a hearing instrument

be in plain language designed to be easily understood by the average

consumer.

SECTION 3. Section 402.305, Occupations Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 402.305. CONTINUING EDUCATION EXEMPTIONS. The

department may renew the license of a license holder who does not

comply with the applicable continuing education requirements if the

license holder[
:

[
(1)

was licensed for the first time during the 24

months before the reporting date; or

[
(2)
] submits proof from an attending physician that

the license holder suffered a serious or disabling illness or

physical disability that prevented compliance with the continuing

education requirements during the 24 months before the reporting

date.

SECTION 4. Section 402.402(a), Occupations Code, is amended

to read as follows:

(a) A licensed hearing instrument fitter and dispenser may

not sell a hearing instrument to a person under 18 years of age

unless the prospective user or a parent or guardian of the

prospective user has presented to the hearing instrument fitter and

dispenser a written statement, signed by a licensed physician

[
specializing in diseases of the ear
], that states that the

patient's hearing loss has been medically evaluated and that the

patient may be considered a candidate for a hearing instrument.

Whenever practicable, the medical evaluation should be performed by

a licensed physician who specializes in diseases of the ear.

SECTION 5. Section 402.402(a), Occupations Code, as amended

by this Act, applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the

effective date of this Act. Conduct that occurs before the

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

date the conduct occurred, and the former law is continued in effect

for that purpose.

SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 904 passed the Senate on

May 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that the

Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2025, by the

following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 904 passed the House, with

amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 124,

Nays 17, two present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor