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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires prescribers to issue an opioid antagonist alongside acute pain opioid prescriptions
Last action · March 14, 2025: Referred to Public HealthSponsor: John Bucy
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to the duties of a prescriber issuing an opioid prescription to treat acute pain.
Patients receiving prescriptions face new requirements to obtain an overdose-reversal drug alongside their medication, and prescribers must evaluate non-opioid treatment referrals.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
prescribers
Prescribers must issue an opioid antagonist alongside acute pain opioid prescriptions and consider alternative pain management referrals.
patients receiving acute pain opioid prescriptions
nonresident pharmacies
Nonresident pharmacies face additional grounds for license discipline if they fail to comply with Subchapter C, Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a doctor have to prescribe an opioid antagonist for every opioid prescription?
Must a patient try physical therapy or chiropractic care before receiving an opioid prescription?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Public Health
- Mar 14, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Jan 8, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Reenactment of Occupations Code Section 565.003
The bill explicitly reenacts Section 565.003 of the Occupations Code as previously amended by two separate 2019 acts (HB 2174 and HB 3284).
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Sources
capitol.texas.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy30Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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