Bill Text: TX HB2907 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a physician's order or protocol delegating certain radiologic procedures to certain health care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - Referred to Public Health [HB2907 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2907-Introduced.html
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| By: Darby | H.B. No. 2907 | |
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| relating to a physician's order or protocol delegating certain | ||
| radiologic procedures to certain health care providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 157, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 157.0551 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 157.0551. ORDERS AND PROTOCOLS: CERTAIN RADIOLOGIC | ||
| PROCEDURES. Notwithstanding any other law, a physician may | ||
| delegate by an order, medical order, standing delegation order, or | ||
| another order or protocol authority for an advanced practice | ||
| registered nurse to: | ||
| (1) read and interpret radiological studies; and | ||
| (2) render diagnoses based on radiological studies. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
