Bill Text: TX HB2454 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for certain health professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of opioids.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2454-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2454 |
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relating to continuing education requirements for certain health | ||
professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of | ||
opioids. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 156.055, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 156.055. CONTINUING EDUCATION IN PAIN MANAGEMENT AND | ||
PRESCRIPTION OF OPIOIDS [ |
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under this subtitle who submits an application for renewal of a | ||
license that designates a direct patient care practice must | ||
complete, in accordance with this section, not less than two hours | ||
of continuing medical education regarding safe and effective pain | ||
management related to the prescription of opioids and other | ||
controlled substances, including education regarding: | ||
(1) reasonable standards of care; | ||
(2) the identification of drug-seeking behavior in | ||
patients; and | ||
(3) effectively communicating with patients regarding | ||
the prescription of an opioid or other controlled substance. | ||
(b) A physician must complete the hours required by | ||
Subsection (a) in each of the first two renewal periods following | ||
the issuance of the physician's initial registration permit under | ||
this chapter, with two of those hours to be completed not later than | ||
the first anniversary of the date of issuance. | ||
(c) After the period described by Subsection (b), a | ||
physician must complete not less than two hours of continuing | ||
medical education described by Subsection (a) every eight years. | ||
(d) The hours required by this section may be completed in | ||
any continuing medical education activity approved by the board, | ||
including medical ethics or professional responsibility education, | ||
and may be counted toward [ |
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education completed to comply with Section 156.051(a)(2). | ||
(e) The hours required by this section may not be used to | ||
satisfy any education required by board rule for certified pain | ||
clinic personnel. | ||
(f) The board shall adopt rules to implement this section. | ||
(g) Notwithstanding Subsections (b) and (c), a physician | ||
who on January 1, 2021, holds a license to practice medicine under | ||
this subtitle shall complete not less than two hours of continuing | ||
medical education described by Subsection (a) in each of the two | ||
renewal periods occurring after that date. This subsection expires | ||
January 1, 2026. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 157.0513(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board, the Texas Board of Nursing, and the Texas | ||
Physician Assistant Board shall jointly develop a process: | ||
(1) to exchange information regarding the names, | ||
locations, and license numbers of each physician, advanced practice | ||
registered nurse, and physician assistant who has entered into a | ||
prescriptive authority agreement; | ||
(2) by which each board shall immediately notify the | ||
other boards when a license holder of the board becomes the subject | ||
of an investigation involving the delegation and supervision of | ||
prescriptive authority, as well as the final disposition of any | ||
such investigation; [ |
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(3) by which each board shall maintain and share a list | ||
of the board's license holders who have been subject to a final | ||
adverse disciplinary action for an act involving the delegation and | ||
supervision of prescriptive authority; and | ||
(4) to ensure that each advanced practice registered | ||
nurse or physician assistant who has entered into a prescriptive | ||
authority agreement authorizing the prescribing of opioids is | ||
required to complete not less than two hours of continuing | ||
education annually regarding safe and effective pain management | ||
related to the prescription of opioids and other controlled | ||
substances, including education regarding: | ||
(A) reasonable standards of care; | ||
(B) the identification of drug-seeking behavior | ||
in patients; and | ||
(C) effectively communicating with patients | ||
regarding the prescription of an opioid or other controlled | ||
substance. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 257.005, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The board shall require a licensed dentist whose | ||
practice includes direct patient care to complete not less than two | ||
hours of board-approved continuing education annually regarding | ||
safe and effective pain management related to the prescription of | ||
opioids and other controlled substances, including education | ||
regarding: | ||
(1) reasonable standards of care; | ||
(2) the identification of drug-seeking behavior in | ||
patients; and | ||
(3) effectively communicating with patients regarding | ||
the prescription of an opioid or other controlled substance. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an application for renewal of a registration permit or license | ||
submitted on or after January 1, 2021. A renewal application | ||
submitted before January 1, 2021, is governed by the law in effect | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2454 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2454 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |