Legislative Updates
Ensuring lawmakers and their staffs have data-based information is crucial to helping elevate and improve the mental health care system in Texas. The Meadows Institute helps lawmakers make informed policy decisions through non-partisan data, research, and invited committee testimony, with the goal of improving care and access to mental health and substance use disorder treatments.
Policy list
Senate Health and Human Services Committee
SUMMARY—On September 18, 2024, Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, provided invited testimony before the Senate Health...
Texas House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety
SUMMARY - On July 31, Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Public Policy Institute, provided invited testimony before the...
State Hospital Redesign & Inpatient Capacity Expansion: 2017-2023
SUMMARY - Since 2016, the Texas Legislature has invested over $3.6 billion toward developing a modernized state hospital system, informed by data-driven policy guidance...