At the heart of TMA's agenda for the 2025 Texas legislative session is protecting the practice of medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
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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
Key Issue Briefs Prepared by the Texas Public Health Coalition
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last Updated On
December 16, 2024
Originally Published On
December 14, 2022