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June 7, 2023UPDATE: HB1805 passed the House and has been assigned to the Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, where it is pending being scheduled for a hearing.
With only ONE week left in the legislative session, please ask the Lt Governor and Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee members to support this important legislation’s timely advancement!
- Call your Republican Senator TODAY and ask them to tell the Lieutenant Governor that they support HB 1805. You can find who represents you in the Texas Senate by clicking here. You can also call the Lt Governor’s office at (512) 463-0001. (If you do not have time to call your Senator, send them an email.)
- Script: “Hello, my name is (Your Name) and I live in (Your District). I am calling to ask (Your Senator) to tell the Lieutenant Governor that they support HB 1805 as it is currently written. It is waiting to be reviewed by the Senate’s Water, Agriculture & Rural Affair Committee. This bill is very important to the people of our state and it needs to be reviewed by the committee with an action to move forward. Please take action and move House Bill 1805 forward.”
You can also send an email to the Lt Governor and Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee members to ask for a hearing as soon as possible.
HB 1805 amends the Texas Compassionate Use Program so that physicians may recommend certain products containing fixed levels of THC to patients with “a condition that causes chronic pain, for which a physician would otherwise prescribe an opioid.” It also empowers state health officials, rather than lawmakers, to add additional qualifying conditions. The measure also replaces the THC cap by instituting a volumetric dose of 10mg.