Bill Text: TX SB889 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the physician assistant board.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Vetoed) 2013-06-14 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB889 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB889-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 889 | ||
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| relating to the physician assistant board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 204.052, Occupations | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The physician assistant board consists of 13 [ |
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| members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the | ||
| senate as follows: | ||
| (1) seven [ |
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| members who each have at least five years of clinical experience as | ||
| a physician assistant; | ||
| (2) three physician members who are licensed in this | ||
| state and who supervise physician assistants; and | ||
| (3) three public members who are not licensed as a | ||
| physician or physician assistant. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 204.054, Occupations | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Members of the physician assistant board are appointed | ||
| for staggered six-year terms. The terms of four or five [ |
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| members, as applicable, expire on February 1 of each odd-numbered | ||
| year. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 204.055, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 204.055. OFFICERS. The governor shall designate a | ||
| physician assistant member of the physician assistant board as the | ||
| presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the will | ||
| of the governor. The physician assistant board shall select from | ||
| its membership a secretary to serve a one-year term. | ||
| SECTION 4. Not later than November 1, 2013, the governor | ||
| shall appoint four members to the physician assistant board as | ||
| provided by Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section 204.052, | ||
| Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, as follows: | ||
| (1) one member for a term expiring February 1, 2015; | ||
| (2) one member for a term expiring February 1, 2017; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) two members for terms expiring February 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 5. If, on the effective date of this Act, the | ||
| presiding officer of the physician assistant board does not meet | ||
| the qualifications for office as presiding officer under Section | ||
| 204.055, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, the presiding | ||
| officer is removed from office as presiding officer on that date. | ||
| As soon as practicable on or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
| the governor shall appoint a presiding officer who meets the | ||
| qualifications under Section 204.055, Occupations Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 889 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 18, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 889 passed the House on | ||
| May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
