Bill Text: TX HB4346 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to joint practice by certain health care professionals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Public Health [HB4346 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4346-Introduced.html
  88R12726 MLH-D
 
  By: Allison H.B. No. 4346
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to joint practice by certain health care professionals.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 301.012(a-1), (a-2), (a-3), (a-6), and
  (a-7), Business Organizations Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a-1)  Persons licensed as physicians under Subtitle B,
  Title 3, Occupations Code, [and] persons licensed as physician
  assistants under Chapter 204, Occupations Code, and persons
  licensed as advanced practice registered nurses under Subtitle E,
  Title 3, Occupations Code, may form and own a professional
  association or a professional limited liability company to perform
  professional services that fall within the scope of practice of
  those practitioners.
         (a-2)  A physician assistant or an advanced practice
  registered nurse may not be an officer in the professional
  association or limited liability company.
         (a-3)  A physician assistant or an advanced practice
  registered nurse may not contract with or employ a physician to be a
  supervising physician of the physician assistant or advanced
  practice registered nurse or of any physician in the professional
  association or limited liability company.
         (a-6)  A physician assistant, an advanced practice
  registered nurse, or a combination of physician assistants or
  advanced practice registered nurses may have only a minority
  ownership interest in an entity created under this section. The
  ownership interest of an individual physician assistant may not
  equal or exceed the ownership interest of any individual physician
  owner. A physician assistant or combination of physician assistants
  may not interfere with the practice of medicine by a physician owner
  or the supervision of physician assistants by a physician owner.
         (a-7)  The Texas Medical Board, [and] the Texas Physician
  Assistant Board, and the Texas Board of Nursing continue to
  exercise regulatory authority over their respective license
  holders according to applicable law. To the extent of a conflict
  between Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code, and Chapter 204,
  Occupations Code, or any rules adopted under those statutes,
  Subtitle B, Title 3, or a rule adopted under that subtitle controls.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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