Bill Text: TX HB2818 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the practice of marriage and family therapy.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2818 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2818-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2818 |
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relating to the practice of marriage and family therapy. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 502.002(6), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(6) "Marriage and family therapy" means providing | ||
professional therapy services to individuals, families, or married | ||
couples, alone or in groups, that involve applying family systems | ||
theories and techniques. The term includes the evaluation, | ||
diagnostic assessment, and remediation of mental, cognitive, | ||
affective, behavioral, or relational dysfunction, disease, or | ||
disorder in the context of marriage or family systems and may | ||
include the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental | ||
Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases. The | ||
practice of marriage and family therapy does not constitute the | ||
practice of medicine and does not include prescribing medication, | ||
treating a physical disease, or providing any service outside the | ||
scope of practice of a licensed marriage and family therapist or a | ||
licensed marriage and family therapist associate. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2818 was passed by the House on May 4 | ||
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2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2818 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |