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1	1	By: Truitt (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 2703
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011;
3	3	May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
4	4	and Human Services; May 18, 2011, reported favorably by the
5	5	following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2011, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to the regulation of orthotists and prosthetists.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Sections 605.002(14) and (18), Occupations Code,
13	13	are amended to read as follows:
14	14	(14) "Orthotics" means the science and practice of
15	15	measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting,
16	16	or servicing an orthosis under an order from a licensed physician,
17	17	chiropractor, or podiatrist, or an advanced practice nurse or
18	18	physician assistant acting under the delegation and supervision of
19	19	a licensed physician as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 157, and
20	20	rules adopted by the Texas Medical Board, for the correction or
21	21	alleviation of a neuromuscular or musculoskeletal dysfunction,
22	22	disease, injury, or deformity.
23	23	(18) "Prosthetics" means the science and practice of
24	24	measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting,
25	25	or servicing a prosthesis under an order from a licensed physician,
26	26	chiropractor, or podiatrist, or an advanced practice nurse or
27	27	physician assistant acting under the delegation and supervision of
28	28	a licensed physician as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 157, and
29	29	rules adopted by the Texas Medical Board.
30	30	SECTION 2. Section 605.2515, Occupations Code, is amended
31	31	to read as follows:
32	32	Sec. 605.2515. ADDITIONAL LICENSE: DEVICE MANUFACTURER. A
33	33	person licensed to practice orthotics or prosthetics who measures,
34	34	designs, fabricates, fits, assembles, adjusts, or services an
35	35	orthosis or a prosthesis under an order from a licensed physician,
36	36	chiropractor, or podiatrist, or an advanced practice nurse or
37	37	physician assistant acting under the delegation and supervision of
38	38	a licensed physician as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 157, and
39	39	rules adopted by the Texas Medical Board, for a specific patient is
40	40	exempt from licensing as a device manufacturer under Subchapter L,
41	41	Chapter 431, Health and Safety Code. A person licensed to practice
42	42	orthotics or prosthetics who fabricates or assembles an orthosis or
43	43	a prosthesis without an order from a licensed physician,
44	44	chiropractor, or podiatrist, or an advanced practice nurse or
45	45	physician assistant acting under the delegation and supervision of
46	46	a licensed physician as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 157, and
47	47	rules adopted by the Texas Medical Board, for a specific patient is
48	48	required to be licensed as a device manufacturer under Subchapter
49	49	L, Chapter 431, Health and Safety Code.
50	50	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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