HR 518 Texas House · 89th Legislature (2025)

Recognizing March 12, 2025, as Children's Health ECMO Day at the State Capitol.

HR 518 is a ceremonial resolution recognizing March 12, 2025, as "Children's Health ECMO Day" at the Texas State Capitol. It honors the ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) team at Children's Health in Dallas for providing critical life-support care to pediatric patients with heart or lung failure. The resolution commemorates their work, including their status as an international Platinum Center of Excellence, and includes specific recognition of the medical professionals involved. As a non-binding commemorative resolution, it does not create new laws or policies.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 11, 2025 Last action Mar 12, 2025

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Introduced → Enrolled · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a traditional legislative resolution style to a modern digital document format. The substantive content of the resolution remains unchanged - it still recognizes March 12, 2025 as Children's Health ECMO Day and honors the ECMO team members for their service. The changes are primarily formatting improvements for digital accessibility and readability, with no policy or legal substance modifications.

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Document formatting changed from traditional legislative markup to digital text format with improved spacing and accessibility compliance

Added digital accessibility statement about WCAG 2.1 compliance at the beginning of the document

Removed traditional page numbering and legislative tracking codes that were used in the printed version

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This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors