{"id":458389,"date":"2026-10-06T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458389\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:46:08","slug":"texas-comptroller-ends-medical-records-tax-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458389\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Comptroller ends medical records tax | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8211; Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order\u00a0to end the tax on medical records and the systems doctors use to access them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Huffines rule change ends taxes on charges for:<\/p>\n<p>electronic health record (EHR) systems;electronic medical record (EMR) systems;patient portals; andother healthcare technology systems used to maintain, access, or share medical records.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A proposed amendment will be filed with the Texas Secretary of State, followed by a 30\u2011day public comment period.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Texans can submit feedback to the Comptroller\u2019s office during that window.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossroadstoday.com\/news\/health\/texas-comptroller-ends-medical-records-tax\/mailto:staff@crossroadstoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staff@crossroadstoday.com<\/a> and include the best way to reach you. See breaking news call the 25 News Now newsroom 361-576-0026.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CROSSROADS TODAY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN &#8211; Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order\u00a0to end the tax on medical records and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50553,66187,335,32179,156846,4517,27,2794,29,28],"class_list":["post-458389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-comptroller","tag-don-huffines","tag-executive","tag-government-of-texas","tag-healthcare-technology-systems","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-texas","tag-texas-comptroller-of-public-accounts","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}