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Blog|Articles|September 30, 2026
6 Texas compliance checks your practice may have missed
Author(s)Keith A. Reynolds
Texas laws on offshore records, AI disclosure, portal holds and gold cards are all in force now. Six checks worth an afternoon.
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Texas lawmakers haven't met since 2025, and the 90th Legislature doesn't convene until Jan. 12, 2027. The rulebook kept moving anyway. Laws from the last session took effect on Sept. 1, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2026, and at least one of them carries real penalties. Under Senate Bill 1188, the attorney general can seek $5,000 per negligent violation and $25,000 for knowing or intentional ones, according to
None of these laws got the attention a federal rule does. Several of them land in parts of the practice nobody reviews very often: vendor contracts, portal settings, the lobby wall and the prior authorization log. A practice can be out of compliance for a year without noticing, and it usually finds out when a patient complaint or a licensing board inquiry arrives.
Most of the fixes are administrative, and many take an afternoon. Here are six places to check before the next session starts writing new rules.
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