Bill Text: TX SB674 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to licensing for certain health professions, including an expedited process for certain physicians specializing in psychiatry; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB674 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB674-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to licensing for certain health professions, including an expedited process for certain physicians specializing in psychiatry; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB674 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB674-Comm_Sub.html
By: Schwertner, Hinojosa | S.B. No. 674 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2017; February 15, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; March 14, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; | ||
March 14, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 674 | By: Schwertner |
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relating to an expedited licensing process for certain physicians | ||
specializing in psychiatry; authorizing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 155, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 155.010 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 155.010. EXPEDITED LICENSING PROCESS FOR PHYSICIANS | ||
SPECIALIZING IN PSYCHIATRY. (a) The board by rule shall create an | ||
expedited licensing process for an applicant who: | ||
(1) holds an unrestricted license to practice medicine | ||
issued by another state; | ||
(2) is board certified in psychiatry by the American | ||
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or the American Osteopathic Board | ||
of Neurology and Psychiatry; and | ||
(3) is not ineligible under Section 155.003(e). | ||
(b) The expedited licensing process must include a | ||
procedure for the board to screen applications under this subtitle | ||
to determine whether an applicant would be eligible for the | ||
expedited licensing process under this section. | ||
(c) The requirements for renewal of a registration permit | ||
for a license holder issued a license under this section may not be | ||
more stringent than the requirements for a license holder issued a | ||
license on a non-expedited basis. | ||
(d) The board may establish a fee for the expedited process. | ||
(e) This section expires January 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Medical Board shall create and | ||
implement the expedited licensing process under Section 155.010, | ||
Occupations Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, | ||
2018. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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