Bill Text: TX SB189 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain aliens for a license to practice medicine in this state.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB189 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB189-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 189 | ||
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| relating to the eligibility of certain aliens for a license to | ||
| practice medicine in this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 155, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 155.0045 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 155.0045. ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR | ||
| CERTAIN ALIENS. (a) A license applicant who is not a United States | ||
| citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in | ||
| the United States must present proof satisfactory to the board that | ||
| the applicant has practiced medicine or has signed an agreement to | ||
| practice medicine as a condition of the license for at least three | ||
| years in an area in this state that is designated by the United | ||
| States Department of Health and Human Services as a health | ||
| professional shortage area or a medically underserved area. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the board from issuing | ||
| a license to an applicant described by that subsection who is | ||
| applying for a license to practice medicine at a graduate medical | ||
| training program in this state that is not in an area described by | ||
| that subsection. | ||
| (c) The board shall adopt rules and procedures to implement | ||
| this section, including rules to determine whether the applicant is | ||
| complying with the agreement required under Subsection (a). | ||
| (d) The board by rule may limit the license to practice | ||
| medicine of an applicant described by Subsection (a) to an area in | ||
| this state that is designated by the United States Department of | ||
| Health and Human Services as a health professional shortage area or | ||
| a medically underserved area. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than May 1, 2012, the Texas Medical | ||
| Board shall adopt the rules necessary to implement Section | ||
| 155.0045, Occupations Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an application for an initial license to practice medicine made on | ||
| or after September 1, 2012. An application for an initial license | ||
| to practice medicine made before that date and the subsequent | ||
| renewal of the license is covered by the law in effect when the | ||
| application was made, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 189 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 189 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
