Bill Text: TX HB607 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education in cultural competence and implicit bias for certain physicians.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Public Health [HB607 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB607-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 607 | |
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| relating to continuing education in cultural competence and | ||
| implicit bias for certain physicians. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 156, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 156.060 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 156.060. CONTINUING EDUCATION IN CULTURAL COMPETENCE | ||
| AND IMPLICIT BIAS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Cultural competence" means, with respect to | ||
| health care, the ability to address the health issues of | ||
| individuals from diverse backgrounds effectively by applying | ||
| knowledge, empathy, and insight into the views on health that those | ||
| backgrounds present. | ||
| (2) "Implicit bias" means: | ||
| (A) bias in judgment or behavior that results | ||
| from subtle cognitive processes, including implicit attitudes and | ||
| implicit stereotypes, that often operate at a level below conscious | ||
| awareness and without intentional control; or | ||
| (B) implicit attitudes and stereotypes that | ||
| result in beliefs or simple associations that a person makes | ||
| between an object and its evaluation that are automatically | ||
| activated by the mere presence, actual or symbolic, of the attitude | ||
| object. | ||
| (b) A physician licensed under this subtitle who submits an | ||
| application for renewal of a registration permit to practice | ||
| medicine and who practices in the area of general practice, | ||
| pediatrics, obstetrics, or gynecology shall include continuing | ||
| medical education in cultural competence and implicit bias among | ||
| the hours of continuing medical education completed for purposes of | ||
| rules adopted under Section 156.051(a)(2). | ||
| (c) The board shall adopt rules to establish the content of | ||
| continuing medical education relating to cultural competence and | ||
| implicit bias. The board may adopt other rules to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 31, 2020, the Texas | ||
| Medical Board shall adopt rules required by Section 156.060, | ||
| Occupations Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
