| 1 | 1 | | By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 1021 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2011; March 16, 2011, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; |
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| 4 | 4 | | May 13, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | 5 | | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1021 By: Rodriguez |
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| 9 | 9 | | |
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| 10 | 10 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 12 | | relating to certain examination requirements for physicians. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 155.051, Occupations |
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| 15 | 15 | | Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (c) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to an [The time |
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| 17 | 17 | | frame to pass each part of the examination described by Subsection |
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| 18 | 18 | | (a) is extended to 10 years and the anniversary date to pass each |
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| 19 | 19 | | part of the examination described by Subsection (b) is extended to |
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| 20 | 20 | | the 10th anniversary if the] applicant who[: |
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| 21 | 21 | | [(1)] is specialty board certified by a specialty |
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| 22 | 22 | | board that: |
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| 23 | 23 | | (1) [(A)] is a member of the American Board of Medical |
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| 24 | 24 | | Specialties; or |
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| 25 | 25 | | (2) [(B)] is approved by the American Osteopathic |
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| 26 | 26 | | Association [a member of the Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists; or |
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| 27 | 27 | | [(2) has been issued a faculty temporary license, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | prescribed by board rule, and has practiced under such a license for |
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| 29 | 29 | | a minimum of 12 months and, at the conclusion of the 12-month |
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| 30 | 30 | | period, has been recommended to the board by the chief |
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| 31 | 31 | | administrative officer and the president of the institution in |
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| 32 | 32 | | which the applicant practiced under the faculty temporary license]. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Section 155.056, Occupations |
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| 34 | 34 | | Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 35 | 35 | | (d) The limitation on examination attempts by an applicant |
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| 36 | 36 | | under Subsection (a) does not apply to an applicant who[: |
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| 37 | 37 | | [(1) is licensed and in good standing as a physician in |
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| 38 | 38 | | another state; |
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| 39 | 39 | | [(2) has been licensed for at least five years; |
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| 40 | 40 | | [(3) does not hold a medical license in the other state |
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| 41 | 41 | | that has any restrictions, disciplinary orders, or probation; and |
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| 42 | 42 | | [(4) passed all but one part of the examination |
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| 43 | 43 | | approved by the board within three attempts and: |
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| 44 | 44 | | [(A) passed the remaining part of the examination |
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| 45 | 45 | | within one additional attempt; or |
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| 46 | 46 | | [(B) passed the remaining part of the examination |
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| 47 | 47 | | within six attempts if the applicant: |
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| 48 | 48 | | [(i)] is specialty board certified by a |
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| 49 | 49 | | specialty board that: |
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| 50 | 50 | | (1) [(a)] is a member of the American Board of Medical |
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| 51 | 51 | | Specialties; or |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) [(b)] is approved by the American Osteopathic |
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| 53 | 53 | | Association[; and |
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| 54 | 54 | | [(ii) has completed in this state an |
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| 55 | 55 | | additional two years of postgraduate medical training approved by |
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| 56 | 56 | | the board]. |
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| 57 | 57 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 58 | 58 | | * * * * * |
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