Bill Text: TX HB1266 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study of the practice of advanced practice registered nurses and the authority of those nurses to prescribe and order prescription drugs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1266 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1266-Comm_Sub.html
By: Coleman, Orr | H.B. No. 1266 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1266: | |||
By: Kolkhorst | C.S.H.B. No. 1266 |
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relating to a study of the practice of advanced practice registered | ||
nurses and the authority of those nurses to prescribe and order | ||
prescription drugs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. INTERIM STUDY OF INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF | ||
ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES. (a) The speaker of the house | ||
of representatives and the lieutenant governor shall issue a joint | ||
interim charge to the standing committees of the house of | ||
representatives and senate with jurisdiction over health care | ||
professionals to conduct a joint study as described by Subsection | ||
(b). | ||
(b) The study shall examine the independent practice of | ||
advanced practice registered nurses to perform basic emergency and | ||
non-emergency health care services and preventive health care | ||
services within the scope of the health care providers' practice | ||
and license, including: | ||
(1) the potential cost savings of health care | ||
providers who are not physicians performing these health care | ||
services; | ||
(2) the impact on access to health care services for | ||
underserved communities and health professional shortage areas; | ||
(3) any projected impact on patient safety and the | ||
quality of care for persons treated by health care providers who are | ||
not physicians; | ||
(4) the effect on the state's overall health care | ||
system; and | ||
(5) the potential cost savings and other foreseeable | ||
consequences of expanding the authority of advanced practice | ||
registered nurses to prescribe medication to patients. | ||
(c) Not later than January 1, 2013, the committees shall | ||
report the committees' findings and recommendations to the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and the governor. The committees shall include in their | ||
recommendations specific changes to statutes and agency rules that | ||
may be necessary according to the results of the committees' study | ||
conducted under this section. | ||
(d) Not later than November 1, 2011, the lieutenant governor | ||
and the speaker of the house of representatives shall issue the | ||
joint interim charge required by this section. | ||
(e) This section expires January 1, 2013. | ||
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September | ||
1, 2011. |