Bill Text: TX HB2081 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the physician assistant board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2081 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2081-Comm_Sub.html
84R5883 MAW-F | ||
By: Laubenberg, et al. | H.B. No. 2081 |
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relating to the physician assistant board. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 204.052(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The physician assistant board consists of 13 [ |
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members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the | ||
senate as follows: | ||
(1) seven [ |
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members who each have at least five years of clinical experience as | ||
a physician assistant; | ||
(2) three physician members who are licensed in this | ||
state and who supervise physician assistants; and | ||
(3) three public members who are not licensed as a | ||
physician or physician assistant. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 204.054(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Members of the physician assistant board are appointed | ||
for staggered six-year terms. The terms of four or five [ |
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members, as applicable, expire on February 1 of each odd-numbered | ||
year. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 204.055, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 204.055. OFFICERS. The governor shall designate a | ||
physician assistant member of the physician assistant board as the | ||
presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the will | ||
of the governor. The physician assistant board shall select from | ||
its membership a secretary to serve a one-year term. | ||
SECTION 4. Not later than November 1, 2015, the governor | ||
shall appoint four members to the physician assistant board as | ||
provided by Section 204.052(a)(1), Occupations Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, as follows: | ||
(1) one member for a term expiring February 1, 2017; | ||
(2) one member for a term expiring February 1, 2019; | ||
and | ||
(3) two members for terms expiring February 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 5. If, on the effective date of this Act, the | ||
presiding officer of the physician assistant board does not meet | ||
the qualifications for office as presiding officer under Section | ||
204.055, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, the presiding | ||
officer is removed from office as presiding officer on that date. As | ||
soon as practicable on or after the effective date of this Act, the | ||
governor shall appoint a presiding officer who meets the | ||
qualifications under Section 204.055, Occupations Code, as amended | ||
by this Act. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |