Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status ... hospitals in Texas to gather data on “patients who are not lawfully ...

Greg Abbott directed hospitals to start collecting data on patients’ immigration status. Abbott signed Executive Order No. GA-46 ... Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC each ...

Preliminary data ... formalize Abbott’s order into a regular annual report each year, a Texas Health and Human Services Commission executive answered lawmakers’ questions about what the agency has ...