Bill Text: TX HB1697 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of sex offender treatment by certain physicians and psychologists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-28 - Left pending in committee [HB1697 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1697-Introduced.html
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| By: Raney | H.B. No. 1697 | |
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| relating to the provision of sex offender treatment by certain | ||
| physicians and psychologists. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 110.301(c), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (c) This section does not apply to: | ||
| (1) a physician whose treatment of a sex offender is | ||
| limited to prescribing medication to the sex offender; or | ||
| (2) a person who is licensed in this state to practice | ||
| as a physician or psychologist and has completed: | ||
| (A) at least 24 hours of training in the specific | ||
| area of sex offender assessment and treatment; and | ||
| (B) at least eight hours of continuing education | ||
| training in the specific area of sex offender assessment and | ||
| treatment during each 12-month period in which the physician or | ||
| psychologist provides sex offender treatment or acts as a sex | ||
| offender treatment provider. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
