Bill Text: TX HB4325 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and maintenance of a glaucoma comanagement registry.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-04 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB4325 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4325-Introduced.html
86R13923 SOS-F | ||
By: Sheffield | H.B. No. 4325 |
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relating to the establishment and maintenance of a glaucoma | ||
comanagement registry. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 153, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 153.017 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 153.017. GLAUCOMA COMANAGEMENT REGISTRY. (a) The | ||
board shall: | ||
(1) establish and maintain a registry of | ||
ophthalmologists engaged in the comanagement of patients with | ||
therapeutic optometrists under Section 351.3581; and | ||
(2) make the registry available to the public through | ||
a link on the board's Internet website. | ||
(b) The registry must be searchable by: | ||
(1) the name of the ophthalmologist; | ||
(2) the name of the therapeutic optometrist; and | ||
(3) the county that an ophthalmologist in the registry | ||
lists as a primary practice location. | ||
(c) An ophthalmologist engaged in the comanagement of | ||
patients under Section 351.3581 shall provide to the board the name | ||
of each therapeutic optometrist with whom the ophthalmologist is | ||
comanaging patients for inclusion in the comanagement registry | ||
maintained under this section. | ||
(d) The board shall establish procedures to allow an | ||
ophthalmologist who provides information for inclusion in the | ||
comanagement registry maintained under this section to update the | ||
information through the registry's Internet website. The board | ||
shall require the ophthalmologist to update the information at | ||
least annually. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the Texas Medical | ||
Board shall establish the registry required by Section 153.017, | ||
Occupations Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |