Bill Text: TX SB1992 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to physician delegation of the provision of anesthesia services to certain anesthesiologist assistants.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1992 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1992-Introduced.html

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86R1077 TSR-F
By: Buckingham S.B. No. 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to physician delegation of the provision of anesthesia
services to certain anesthesiologist assistants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 157,
Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER B. DELEGATION TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES,
[AND] PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, AND ANESTHESIOLOGIST ASSISTANTS
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 157, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 157.061 to read as follows:
Sec. 157.061. DELEGATION TO CERTAIN ANESTHESIOLOGIST
ASSISTANTS. (a) In a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical
center, a supervising physician who is an anesthesiologist may
delegate the administration and provision of an anesthetic or an
anesthesia-related service ordered by the supervising physician to
an anesthesiologist assistant who:
(1) has passed the Certifying Examination for
Anesthesiologist Assistants administered by the National
Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants or the
commission's successor entity; and
(2) holds a certificate issued by the National
Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants or the
commission's successor entity.
(b) The supervising physician's order for an anesthetic or
an anesthesia-related service is not required to specify a drug,
dose, or administration technique.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.