The Center on Health and Families (CHF), a campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), has unveiled its policy priorities for the 89th Texas Legislative Session. The session is scheduled to begin on January 14, 2025, and end on June 2, 2025.
In a press release issued by the TPPF—an Austin-based non-profit organization committed to promoting liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise—the campaign seeks to enhance systems and outcomes that impact patients, families, and children. The CHF has been instrumental in various reforms, including those related to family formation, child protective services, healthcare pricing transparency, and access to healthcare in rural areas.
The TPPF press release outlined its key priorities for the upcoming legislative session. These include making affordable healthcare more accessible to patients; improving healthcare price transparency; reforming grounds for termination of parental rights; defining the best interest of the child; promoting marriage and family formation; protecting patient health data privacy; reducing barriers to physician licensing; establishing an adoption assistance program; applying active efforts at family reunification; implementing child welfare licensing and regulatory reform; expanding community-based care; improving mental health services; ending anti-competitive contracting; reforming child protective services reporting; reforming the Department of Family and Protective Services Central Registry; and advancing family mitigation and diversion laws.
"Healthy families are critical to the success of Texas," said Tanner Aliff, CHF Policy Director. He further stated in the press release: "The state’s ability to implement reform faster than Congress means it can be a leader in reducing out-of-pocket costs, incentivizing more providers to come to Texas, protecting patients’ rights, and increasing physical access to high-quality care for everyone. America’s healthcare system has become more broken as more middlemen have gotten between patients and providers. Texas needs policy that ensures medical freedom and supports the relationship between a patient and their healthcare provider."
