Bill Text: TX HR640 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing April 20, 2021, as Doctors of Osteopathic Medical Excellence Day.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-04-20 - Reported enrolled [HR640 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR640-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 640 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Members of the Texas Osteopathic Medical | ||
| Association are celebrating Doctors of Osteopathic Medical | ||
| Excellence (DOME) Day with a virtual event on April 20, 2021, and | ||
| this occasion offers a welcome opportunity to recognize the | ||
| important contributions that osteopathic physicians make to the | ||
| health care system in the Lone Star State; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association was | ||
| founded in 1900 by a group of five physicians in order to promote | ||
| health care excellence for the people of Texas, to advance the | ||
| distinct philosophy and principles of osteopathic medicine, and to | ||
| serve the needs of the osteopathic profession; and | ||
| WHEREAS, As primary care doctors or specialists, physician | ||
| members of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association help their | ||
| patients develop attitudes and lifestyles that prevent illness, not | ||
| just fight it; they give special attention to how the body's nerves, | ||
| muscles, bones, and organs work together to influence health, and | ||
| through osteopathic manipulative treatment, they use their hands to | ||
| diagnose injury and illness and encourage the body's natural | ||
| ability to heal itself; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The physicians, residents, medical students, and | ||
| advocate members of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association play | ||
| an essential role in the health care of countless Texans, and their | ||
| contributions to the welfare and prosperity of the state is truly | ||
| deserving of special recognition; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby recognize April 20, 2021, as Doctors of | ||
| Osteopathic Medical Excellence Day; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That April 18 through 24, 2021, be recognized as | ||
| Texas Osteopathic Medicine Week. | ||
| Oliverson | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 640 was adopted by the House on April | ||
| 16, 2021, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
