Today marked a historic day for Texas and its medical cannabis program. HB3703 was passed out of the Senate unanimously. The bill will add spasticity, incurable neurodegenerative disease, ALS, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis and terminal cancer. The bill has been approved by the house with amendments and is off to the governor’s desk.
House Bill 3703 with committee substitute was placed on the Senate intent calendar for May 21st on the evening of May 20 2019. Ask Republican Senators and the Lt Governor to support any amendment that would allow for #PTSD and other service related disabilities!
The Senate Health & Human Services committee voted unanimously to approve Committee Substitute HB 3703, But it failed to add PTSD and intractable pain. People need to contact their senator.
Today, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing and the quickly voted to unanimously pass HB 3703. Ask your Senators to support any amendment that would allow for PTSD and intractable pain!
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What can you do now that HB3703 has been added to the Health and Human services calendar for a hearing on May 17, 2019. The senate has assigned HB1365 to the Health and Human Services Committee.
Greg Abbott has confirmed what he will sign for medicinal cannabis. It may not seems like much on the surface to many, but it means that one less hurdle stands between these children and the medicine their licensed professional have noted that they possibly need.
HB3703 was assigned to the Health and Human Service committee on May 10, 2019. The bill has not been scheduled yet for its hearing, so that gives anybody wishing to make their voice heard on bill time to speak with their senators.
Representative Stephanie Klick’s HB3703 has passed the house in its third and final vote. Normally when any bill that expands the Texas Compassionate Use Program is heard and passed out of committee, it would be celebrated. The Texas Tribune wrote an article about this recently and it should be clarified.
The hard work is paying off Texas, but it doesn’t stop now. Time isn’t on the patients side in this case. This means that it is time for constituents to reach out to their Senators and let them know that they want them to take up the issue in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee for hearing and testimony.