How New Legislation in Texas Will Impact Children’s Health and Safety

Texas lawmakers introduced hundreds of new laws during the 2023 legislative session, with the GOP-controlled chambers passing — or failing to pass — key legislation that will impact the health and safety of children across the state. The discussion ranged across the successes and failures of bills related to vaccines, access to care, Medicaid, transgender care, early childhood education, immunization requirements, foster care and more. Our expert guests also broke down what the new laws mean for both care providers and children moving forward.

Featured guests included Rekha Lakshmanan, a nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences and the chief strategy officer at The Immunization Partnership, Mandi Kimball, vice president and director of public policy and government affairs for Children at Risk, and Clayton Travis, the director of advocacy and health policy at Texas Pediatric Society.

This event was co-sponsored by the Baker Institute Child Health Policy Program and the Science and Technology Policy Program.

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Agenda

9:00 am	Introduction Rola El-Serag, M.D. L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy and Director, Center for Health and Biosciences, Baker Institute
9:15 am	Presentation I Introduction of Speaker: Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Ph.D., Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute Rekha Lakshmanan Nonresident Scholar, Center for Health and Biosciences, Baker Institute; Chief Strategy Officer, The Immunization Partnership
9:50 am	Presentation II Introduction of Speaker: Christopher Kulesza, Ph.D., Scholar in Child Health Policy, Baker Institute Mandi Kimball Vice President and Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Children at Risk
10:25 am	Break
10:40 am	Presentation III Introduction of Speaker: Sandra McKay, M.D., FAAP, Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy, Baker Institute Clayton Travis Director of Advocacy and Health Policy, Texas Pediatric Society
11:15 am	Panel Q&A Moderated by: Sandra McKay, M.D., FAAP, Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy, Baker Institute
Noon	Adjourn