Bill Text: TX SB61 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of military physicians who provide voluntary charity health care.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB61 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB61-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of military physicians who provide voluntary charity health care.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB61 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB61-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nelson, et al. | S.B. No. 61 | |
(Cortez) | ||
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relating to the licensing and regulation of military physicians who | ||
provide voluntary charity health care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter C, Chapter 155, | ||
Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER C. CERTAIN TEMPORARY OR LIMITED LICENSES OR PERMITS | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 155, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 155.103 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 155.103. MILITARY LIMITED VOLUNTEER LICENSE. (a) The | ||
board shall adopt rules relating to the issuance of a military | ||
limited volunteer license under this section. | ||
(b) The board may issue a military limited volunteer license | ||
to practice medicine to an applicant who: | ||
(1) is licensed and in good standing, or was licensed | ||
and retired in good standing, as a physician in another state; | ||
(2) is or was authorized as a physician to treat | ||
personnel enlisted in a branch of the United States armed forces or | ||
veterans; and | ||
(3) meets any other requirement prescribed by board | ||
rule. | ||
(c) The board may not issue a license under this section to | ||
an applicant who: | ||
(1) holds a medical license that: | ||
(A) is currently under active investigation; or | ||
(B) is or was subject to a disciplinary order or | ||
action or to denial by another jurisdiction; | ||
(2) holds a license to prescribe, dispense, | ||
administer, supply, or sell a controlled substance that: | ||
(A) is currently under active investigation; or | ||
(B) is or was subject to a disciplinary order or | ||
action or to denial by another jurisdiction; or | ||
(3) has been convicted of, is on deferred adjudication | ||
community supervision or deferred disposition for, or is under | ||
active investigation for the commission of: | ||
(A) a felony; or | ||
(B) a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. | ||
(d) A physician may practice medicine under a license issued | ||
under this section only at a clinic that primarily treats indigent | ||
patients. The physician may not receive compensation for medical | ||
services rendered at the clinic. | ||
(e) A military limited volunteer license holder is subject | ||
to board rules, including rules regarding disciplinary action, | ||
license registration and renewal, and continuing medical | ||
education. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |