Bill Text: TX SB968 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of the practice of podiatry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB968 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB968-Introduced.html

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89R5474 DNC-F
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 968

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the licensing and regulation of the practice of
podiatry.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 202.259, Occupations Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 202.259. RESIDENCY [TEMPORARY] LICENSE. (a) The
commission by rule may adopt a procedure for the issuance of a
residency [temporary] license to an applicant [other than an
applicant for a provisional license under Section 202.260].
(b) Rules adopted under this section must establish:
(1) the criteria for issuance of a residency
[temporary] license; and
(2) a maximum period during which a residency
[temporary] license is valid.
SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Occupations Code
are repealed:
(1) Section 202.061; and
(2) Section 202.260.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
202.259, Occupations Code, does not affect the validity of a
license issued under that section before the effective date of this
Act. A license issued under that section before the effective date
of this Act that is in effect on that date expires according to the
term provided on the date of issuance, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.