Bill Text: TX HB2071 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relating to the issuance by reciprocity of a license to practice medical physics to persons who hold a license from the United States armed forces.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB2071 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2071-Introduced.html

---

83R8855 SLB-F
By: Cortez H.B. No. 2071

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance by reciprocity of a license to practice
medical physics to persons who hold a license from the United States
armed forces.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 602.211(a), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) On receipt of an application and fee under Section
602.203, the board may waive any prerequisite for obtaining a
license to a person who holds a license to practice medical or
radiological physics in:
(1) another state, territory, or jurisdiction
acceptable to the board that has requirements for the licensing of
medical or radiological physicists that are substantially the same
as the requirements of this chapter; or
(2) the United States armed forces, including the
United States Coast Guard.
SECTION 2. The executive commissioner of the Health and
Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement Section
602.211(a), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as
practicable after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.