Bill Text: TX SB2115 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-12 - No action taken in committee [SB2115 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2115-Engrossed.html
| By: Lucio, Perry | S.B. No. 2115 | |
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| relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health | ||
| care practitioners. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 112, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. COMPLAINT REFERRALS | ||
| Sec. 112.101. COMPLAINTS AGAINST HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER | ||
| LICENSED BY DIFFERENT LICENSING ENTITY. (a) Notwithstanding any | ||
| other law, a licensing entity that receives a complaint concerning | ||
| a health care practitioner who holds a license issued by a different | ||
| licensing entity shall promptly forward a copy of the complaint to | ||
| that licensing entity. | ||
| (b) A licensing entity may not take disciplinary action | ||
| based on a complaint against a health care practitioner who holds a | ||
| license issued by a different licensing entity unless: | ||
| (1) the licensing entity that issued the license | ||
| refers the complaint back to the licensing entity that received the | ||
| complaint for investigation and resolution; or | ||
| (2) the disciplinary action is taken under Subtitle B | ||
| for practicing medicine in this state without a license. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a complaint filed against a health care practitioner on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A complaint filed before the effective | ||
| date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
| complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
