BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
HB 1743: Health providers/carceral
Enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings.
Summary
- Creates a process under which the state will provide reimbursement for certain judgments or settlements based on damages for injury or death in the provision of health care services by community-based health care providers in local correctional facilities.
From the House Bill Report (HB 1743), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 30, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Tarra Simmons (D-23)
- Introduced
- January 30, 2025 in the House
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Tarra Simmons (D-23)
8 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Referred to Appropriations.
- CRJ - Executive action taken by committee.
- Minority; without recommendation.
- Minority; do not pass.
- CRJ - Majority; do pass.
- First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary.
HB 1743 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- HB 1743 (2023–24) Employee ownership
- HB 1743 (2021–22) Dispo. of remains/indigent
- HB 1743 (2019–20) Prevailing rate of wages
- HB 1743 (2017–18) Juvenile rehab. confinement
- HB 1743 (2015–16) High sch equivalency tests
- HB 1743 (2013–14) Vehicles overtaking cyclists
- HB 1743 (2011–12) DUI seven-year provision
- HB 1743 (2009–10) Alcohol, biomass, biodiesel