Bill Text: TX HB2758 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for physicians regarding the identification and assistance of trafficked persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2758-Comm_Sub.html
By: Smith, Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) | H.B. No. 2758 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021; | ||
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to continuing education requirements for physicians | ||
regarding the identification and assistance of trafficked persons. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 156.060, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 156.060. CONTINUING EDUCATION REGARDING THE | ||
IDENTIFICATION AND ASSISTANCE OF TRAFFICKED PERSONS [ |
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physician who designates a direct patient care practice on an | ||
application for renewal of a registration permit. | ||
(b) A physician licensed under this subtitle who submits an | ||
application for renewal of a registration permit [ |
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one hour of continuing medical education under this section | ||
regarding the identification and assistance of trafficked persons: | ||
(1) in the first renewal period following the issuance | ||
of the physician's initial registration permit under this chapter; | ||
and | ||
(2) if the board approves more than one course under | ||
Subsection (d), at least once in every third renewal period | ||
following the renewal period described by Subdivision (1)[ |
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(c) [ |
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(1) shall be designated by the board [ |
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medical ethics or professional responsibility education; and | ||
(2) may be counted toward the hours of [ |
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by Section 156.051(a)(2). | ||
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section, including rules to establish the content of and approval | ||
requirements for continuing medical education relating to the | ||
identification and assistance of trafficked persons. In adopting | ||
rules, the board shall seek input from affected parties and review | ||
relevant courses, including courses that have been approved in | ||
other states. Rules adopted under this section must provide for the | ||
identification and approval of accredited continuing medical | ||
education courses that represent an appropriate spectrum of | ||
relevant information relating to the identification and assistance | ||
of trafficked persons. | ||
(e) A physician may satisfy the requirement of Subsection | ||
(b)(1) by completing at least one hour of a training course approved | ||
by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission under Section 116.002. This subsection expires | ||
September 1, 2023. | ||
(f) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a physician who on | ||
September 1, 2021, holds a license to practice medicine under this | ||
subtitle shall complete at least one hour of continuing medical | ||
education under this section regarding the identification and | ||
assistance of trafficked persons. This subsection expires January | ||
1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 156.060, Occupations Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to an application for renewal of a | ||
registration permit to practice medicine submitted on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A renewal application submitted before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | ||
the date the application was submitted, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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