Bill Text: TX HB698 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of the fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-28 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB698 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB698-Introduced.html
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By: King of Uvalde | H.B. No. 698 |
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relating to the regulation of the fitting and dispensing of hearing | ||
instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 402.003, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 402.003. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. (a) Except as | ||
provided by Subsections (b) and (c) and Section 402.451(a), this | ||
chapter applies only to a person who engages or offers to engage in | ||
fitting and dispensing hearing instruments. | ||
(b) This chapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) a person engaged in the practice of measuring | ||
human hearing as a part of the academic curriculum of an accredited | ||
institution of higher learning if the person or the person's | ||
employees do not sell hearing instruments; | ||
(2) a physician licensed by the Texas Medical Board; | ||
(3) a person with a master's degree or doctorate in | ||
audiology from an accredited college or university who does not | ||
sell hearing instruments, to the extent the person engages in the | ||
measurement of human hearing by the use of an audiometer or by any | ||
other means to make selections and adaptations of or | ||
recommendations for a hearing instrument and to make impressions | ||
for earmolds to be used as part of a hearing instrument; | ||
(4) an audiologist or an audiology intern licensed | ||
under Chapter 401, except as may otherwise be provided by the | ||
following provisions, which refer to Chapter 401: | ||
(A) Section 402.051(a)(1); | ||
(B) Section 402.202(b); | ||
(C) Section 402.252; | ||
(D) Section 402.255(a); and | ||
(E) Section 402.406(a); and | ||
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(5) a student of audiology in an accredited college or | ||
university program, if the student's activities and services are | ||
part of the student's supervised course of study or practicum | ||
experience. | ||
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is subject to Chapter 401. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 402.201, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 402.201. LICENSE OR PERMIT REQUIRED. Unless a person | ||
holds a license or permit issued under this chapter, the [ |
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may not: | ||
(1) engage or offer to engage in fitting and | ||
dispensing hearing instruments; | ||
(2) represent that the person is authorized to fit and | ||
dispense hearing instruments; [ |
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(3) use in connection with the person's name any | ||
designation tending to imply that the person is authorized to | ||
engage in the fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments[ |
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SECTION 3. Section 402.451(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person may not: | ||
(1) buy, sell, or fraudulently obtain a license or aid | ||
another person to do so; | ||
(2) alter a license with the intent to defraud; | ||
(3) wilfully make a false statement in an application | ||
to the committee for a license, a temporary training permit, or the | ||
renewal of a license; | ||
(4) falsely impersonate a license holder; or | ||
(5) engage in the fitting and dispensing of hearing | ||
instruments when the person's license is suspended or revoked[ |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |