88th Session (2023)

Yesterday, on the final day that the Senate was able to debate and pass bills, Texans for Vaccine Choice witnessed its most monumental victory to date. Senator Mayes Middleton laid out and finally passed HB 44, a bill authored on the House side by TFVC Champion Representative Valoree Swanson which prohibits government-contracted doctors from denying […]

Rep Price authored HB 1105, a bill that would codify the PREP Act – which was intended to be a temporary expansion of pharmacists’ duties to include ordering and administering vaccines for children three and up – into Texas law, which TFVC opposes due to its lack of safeguarding for pediatric patients. In laying his

Rarely do bills experience push back at the stage of the Legislative process called ‘third reading’, but leave it to medical liberty bills to buck the trend! After a drawn-out struggle during second reading (the first time the bill was heard on the House floor) between Rep. Swanson (the bill author) and various other Representatives

Senator Bryan Hughes of SD 1 in Northeast Texas deserves high praise for his efforts to protect your medical liberties this session. As Chair of the Senate Committee on State Affairs, he has moved vital vaccine choice legislation such as SB 29, SB 175, SJR 70 swiftly out of committee. He also personally authored SJR

Senator Kelly Hancock (SD 9) is a member of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, a powerful Committee when it comes to your medical liberties. As an organ transplant recipient himself, one would expect that Senator Hancock would be sensitive to discrimination against patients seeking life-saving medical care. Instead, during a recent vote

We are excited to announce that significant actions were taken yesterday in each chamber on identical bills that TFVC fully supports.  These bills, both titled the TEXAS COVID VACCINE FREEDOM ACT, would ensure informed consent for ALL Texans in regards to the COVID jabs. While we understand there are concerns regarding the limited scope of

Previously a member of the House of Representatives and former Chairman of the Texas Freedom Caucus, Mayes Middleton is serving his first term in the “upper chamber” where he continues to prioritize medical liberty for Texans. He is shepherding SB 177, The Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act, through the Senate and has gotten SB 175,

Last week was a busy one for medical tyranny, with HB 989 being voted favorably out of the House Committee on Higher Education. This vote was unanimous, which is why we are spotlighting all members of this committee who voted for this bill (3 were absent from the committee vote). Despite being flooded with phone

You may recall that on the morning of March 29, TFVC released this Action Alert on HR 835, a “simple resolution” filed by Rep. Ann Johnson recognizing Vaccine Awareness and Advocacy Day in the Texas House. We wanted to circle back and give you the results of that Action Alert.  Let’s start with some context:

We are just over half way through the 2023 Legislative Session. Let’s take a look at where we are: Number of Good Bills Filed: 58Number of Bad Bills Filed: 12(Follow along with all of the bills that TFVC is tracking here.) Hearings for Good Bills: 13 (You can read about some of those hearings here.)Hearings

Senator Drew Springer – In an attempt to increase transparency and strengthen informed consent, Senator Springer filed SB 403, which would task the state with performing a study on the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. We, at TFVC, cheered this unprecedented effort to expose adverse events related to the COVID jab. However, we knew

Rep. Donna Howard – Reigning Tyranny Squad Queen: TFVC has chosen to feature Rep. Howard again because, if left to her own devices, she would double and triple down on her goal of vaccinating every single Texan – regardless of their health history, risk profile and personal beliefs – and ensuring that the state is

Representative Ann Johnson had not come on the Medical Liberty radar much since her election in 2020, but this session she seems eager to show us where she stands. As a member of the House Committee on Public Health, she listened to resource testimony from Dr. Jennifer Shuford, head of the state’s Health and Human

Since the beginning, Senator Bob Hall has been supportive of vaccine choice – always voting to defend medical liberty and working closely with TFVC to address issues brought to us by supporters. Since COVID hit, Senator Hall has stood in a class by himself. He has advocated strongly for patients’ rights and physicians’ autonomy in

As I reflect on last week, the only word I have is HISTORIC. Over the course of 3 days, TEN bills that TFVC supports were heard in various committees across both chambers. By comparison, in sessions past, we were lucky to get ONE hearing on ONE good bill during the entirety of the five months