At the heart of TMA's agenda for the 2025 Texas legislative session is protecting the practice of medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
Legislative Resources
2025 Legislative Priorities
2025 Legislative Priorities (postcard)
2025 Key Issue Briefs
Scope of Practice
Protect Patient Care: Don't Remove Physicians from the Health Care Team
Texas must preserve our team-based care framework that puts patient safety first with physician-led care. All patients – regardless of where they live – deserve the same standard of high-quality care from an experienced clinician.
Scope of Practice: Facts vs. Myths
Artificial/Augmented Intelligence (AI)
Legislative Priority: Seek Balanced Regulation of AI
Ensure artificial intelligence (AI) regulation supports physician practices but does not replace physicians or their medical expertise.
Corporate Practice of Medicine
Uphold Corporate Practice of Medicine Protections
Help ensure physicians can exercise professional medical judgment in treating patients without financial or other outside pressures.
Medical Liability
Legislative Priority: Safeguard Medical Liability Protections
Preserve Texas’ landmark medical liability reforms and prevent new liability risks that threaten access to care.
Telemedicine
Support Payment Parity for Telemedicine: Expand Access to Care with Telemedicine Payment Parity
TMA seeks to improve access to high-quality, physician-led telemedicine care that is covered at the same rate as in-person visits.
Physician Workforce
Grow the Physician Workforce in Texas
Texas should invest in policies and funding to stabilize the physician workforce and grow Graduate Medical Education (GME) so Texas graduates can train in the state and meet the health care needs of our rapidly growing population.
Rural Health
Protect and Revitalize Access to Rural Texans’ Health Care
Texas’ rural health care continues to face unprecedented financial and demographic pressures.
Key Issue Briefs Prepared by the Texas Public Health Coalition
Budget
Stop Cuts to Texas’ Public Health Infrastructure
Ensure our public health agencies have robust funding and a strong infrastructure to fulfill their lifesaving mission to prevent and eliminate disease. Neglecting public health over time carries a high, avoidable price tag.
Immunization Registry
Enhance Texas’ Immunization Registry for Emergency Preparedness
Defend Texans during a disaster or disease outbreak by improving communication between the state’s immunization registry, ImmTrac2, and electronic health records. Maintaining a voluntary, free, shareable vaccination history is critical during a disaster or disease outbreak.
Maternal Coverage
Improve Maternal Health in Texas
Improve Texas’ maternal health by ensuring comprehensive health coverage for pregnant individuals. Comprehensive health coverage can lead to healthy pregnancies starting before conception and continuing post birth, and diagnosis and management of chronic health conditions.
Tobacco
Increase Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Funding in Texas
Tobacco prevention is greatly underfunded in Texas. Tobacco use remains Texas’ leading cause of preventable death, disease, and disability, but tobacco prevention is a sound investment in health and in reducing health care spending.
Vaccines
Shield Texas Children from Infectious Diseases
The Texas Legislature has the power to implement measures to defend children from preventable illness and disease. Vaccines are a crucial public health tool for preventing disease and keeping children healthy and in school.