Bill Text: TX HB2933 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of military optometrists and therapeutic optometrists who provide voluntary charity care.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2933-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2933 | ||
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| relating to the licensing and regulation of military optometrists | ||
| and therapeutic optometrists who provide voluntary charity care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 351.266 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.266. MILITARY LIMITED VOLUNTEER LICENSE. (a) The | ||
| board shall adopt rules relating to the issuance of a military | ||
| limited volunteer license under this section. | ||
| (b) The board may issue a military limited volunteer license | ||
| to practice optometry or therapeutic optometry to an applicant who: | ||
| (1) is licensed and in good standing, or was licensed | ||
| and retired in good standing, as an optometrist or therapeutic | ||
| optometrist in another state; | ||
| (2) is or was authorized as an optometrist or | ||
| therapeutic optometrist to treat personnel enlisted in a branch of | ||
| the United States armed forces or veterans; and | ||
| (3) meets any other requirement prescribed by board | ||
| rule. | ||
| (c) The board may not issue a license under this section to | ||
| an applicant who: | ||
| (1) holds an optometry or therapeutic optometry | ||
| license that: | ||
| (A) is currently under active investigation; or | ||
| (B) is or was subject to a disciplinary order or | ||
| action or to denial by another jurisdiction; | ||
| (2) holds a license to prescribe, dispense, | ||
| administer, supply, or sell a controlled substance that: | ||
| (A) is currently under active investigation; or | ||
| (B) is or was subject to a disciplinary order or | ||
| action or to denial by another jurisdiction; or | ||
| (3) has been convicted of, is on deferred adjudication | ||
| community supervision or deferred disposition for, or is under | ||
| active investigation for the commission of: | ||
| (A) a felony; or | ||
| (B) a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. | ||
| (d) An optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may practice | ||
| optometry or therapeutic optometry under a license issued under | ||
| this section only at a clinic that primarily treats indigent | ||
| patients. The optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may not | ||
| directly or indirectly receive compensation or anything of monetary | ||
| value for optometric services rendered at the clinic. | ||
| (e) A military limited volunteer license holder is subject | ||
| to board rules, including rules regarding disciplinary action, | ||
| license registration and renewal, and continuing medical | ||
| education. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2933 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2933 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 18, 2017, by a viva-voce vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
