Bill Text: TX HB387 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to submission of reports by an advanced practice registered nurse under the workers' compensation system.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB387 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB387-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 387 |
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relating to submission of reports by an advanced practice | ||
registered nurse under the workers' compensation system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 408.025(a-1), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A treating doctor may delegate to a physician | ||
assistant who is licensed to practice in this state under Chapter | ||
204, Occupations Code, or an advanced practice registered nurse who | ||
is licensed to practice in this state under Chapter 301, | ||
Occupations Code, the authority to complete and sign a work status | ||
report regarding an injured employee's ability to return to | ||
work. The delegating treating doctor is responsible for the acts | ||
of the physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse | ||
under this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 387 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 387 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |