Bill Text: TX HB2512 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2512-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2512-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Morrison | H.B. No. 2512 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2512: | |||
By: Klick | C.S.H.B. No. 2512 |
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relating to the regulation of athletic trainers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 451.001(1) and (3), Occupations Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Athletic injury" means an injury sustained by a | ||
person as a result of physical activity or exercise or the person's | ||
participation in an organized sport or sport-related exercise or | ||
activity, including interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, | ||
recreational, semiprofessional, and professional sports | ||
activities. | ||
(3) "Athletic training" means the form of health care | ||
that includes principles and methods for managing and treating | ||
athletic injuries for athletic individuals in good general health | ||
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under the direction of a physician licensed in this state or another | ||
qualified, licensed health professional who is authorized to refer | ||
for health care services within the scope of the person's license, | ||
and consists of: | ||
(A) managing the risk of an athletic injury or | ||
illness; | ||
(B) preventing an athletic injury or illness; | ||
(C) assessing an athletic injury or illness; | ||
(D) providing immediate emergency care; | ||
(E) providing therapeutic intervention for an | ||
athletic injury; and | ||
(F) reconditioning an athletic injury or | ||
illness. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |