Authored legislation protecting minors from irreversible gender-affirming medical interventions, ensuring that children cannot consent to life-altering procedures that adults may later regret.
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Healthcare — The Physician-Senator
Thirty years of medicine. Zero years of guesswork on healthcare policy.
Most legislators learn about healthcare from lobbyists and briefing papers. Dr. Donna Campbell learned it in the emergency room at three o'clock in the morning, making split-second decisions that meant the difference between life and death. Board-certified in both emergency medicine and ophthalmology, she is one of the only physicians serving in the Texas Legislature — and the only one who has performed hundreds of sight-restoring eye surgeries in rural Ghana, treating patients who would have gone blind without her care.
That is the difference between a career politician and a citizen-doctor. Dr. Campbell put herself through nursing school, graduate school, and medical school starting from a job at age thirteen. She served as an Emergency Department Medical Director. She held trembling hands, delivered hard diagnoses, and fought insurance companies that tried to deny her patients the care they needed. When she writes healthcare legislation, she writes it from the exam room out — not from the lobbyist's talking points in.
In the 88th and 89th Legislatures, she authored laws that protect healthcare workers from workplace violence, and in 2025 she co-authored the law giving physicians a window to personally discuss sensitive test results with patients before they appear in online portals. As Senate sponsor of HB 3703 in 2019, she carried the expansion of the Compassionate Use Program to Texans suffering from autism, MS, ALS, and terminal cancer. In 2025 she carried HB 4743 in the Senate, allowing a single hospital license to cover both a hospital and its accredited mobile stroke unit. Dr. Campbell fights for healthcare policy that works the way medicine actually works: quickly, compassionately, and with the patient always first.
She authored SB 14 protecting minors from irreversible medical interventions, ensuring that children cannot consent to life-altering procedures that adults may later regret.
Proven Record
Authored the law requiring hospitals, freestanding ERs, ambulatory surgical centers, mental hospitals, and nursing facilities and home health agencies with at least two registered nurses to have a committee develop a workplace violence prevention plan, train direct-care staff at least annually, and protect workers who report violence from retaliation.
Sponsored legislation allowing a single hospital license to cover both a hospital and a mobile stroke unit, reducing bureaucratic barriers to deploying life-saving mobile stroke care in underserved areas.
Authored the law updating Henda's Law, Texas's breast density notification requirement, to match new federal standards, so every mammography patient receives a notice based on her reported breast density.
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Joint-authored the law capping what state-regulated health plans can charge enrollees for insulin at $25 for a 30-day supply, for plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, easing costs for Texans with diabetes.
Joint-authored the law giving residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and certain other long-term care settings the right to designate an essential caregiver whose in-person visits the facility may not prohibit, with any emergency suspension limited to seven days at a time and approved by the state.
Joint-authored the law creating new state grant programs for the clinical training of nursing students and nursing faculty, and opening nurse faculty loan repayment to part-time faculty, to address the Texas nursing shortage.
Joint-authored legislation requiring regular performance and financial audits of local mental and behavioral health authorities, expanding mental and behavioral health reporting, and creating, subject to funding, an innovation matching grant program for mental health early intervention and treatment.
SB 21 — Tobacco 21
2019Co-authored legislation raising the legal age to purchase cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco products from 18 to 21, protecting Texas teenagers from nicotine addiction.
Joint-authored the law requiring the state's Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response to include an epidemiologist and meet at least once a year, and directing regional trauma advisory councils, when funded, to collect and publish hospital data needed to plan for public health emergencies.
Authored the law extending the 2023 workplace violence prevention requirements to intermediate care facilities for individuals with an intellectual disability, state supported living centers, and all licensed home and community support services agencies with at least two registered nurses, not just those providing home health services.
Authored the law writing into statute that the Texas Physician Health Program, a confidential, nondisciplinary program, serves every Texas Medical Board license holder and must accept self-referrals, and extending its funding surcharge to all board licensees.
Christian Eye Ministries — Ghana
1993-2000Performed hundreds of sight-restoring eye surgeries annually in Ghana, West Africa through Christian Eye Ministries from 1993 to 2000, treating patients who would otherwise have remained blind.
"I have held a patient's hand in the ER at 3 a.m. That perspective changes how you write legislation. Healthcare policy should be written by people who have actually delivered care — not by people who have only read about it."
Dr. Campbell's Promise
Why do we need to keep Texas Healthy?
Because we don't have another Texas to move to.
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Pro-Life Leadership
Dr. Donna Campbell joint-authored the Texas Heartbeat Act and has been repeatedly honored by the Texas Alliance for Life. Her record defending the unborn in SD-25.
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Veterans & Military
Dr. Donna Campbell chaired the Senate's veterans committee for four consecutive sessions and represents tens of thousands of veterans in TX SD-25. See her record on military mental health, tax relief, and JBSA.
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Education & Parental Rights
Dr. Campbell fights for school choice, parental rights, and $10K Education Savings Accounts. Chair of the Senate Committee on Education.
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