By: Romero, Jr. H.B. No. 3995
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to licensed marriage and family therapists.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
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ECTION 1. Section 502.002(6), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(6) "Marriage and family therapy" means providing
professional therapy services to individuals, families, or married
couples, alone or in groups, that involve applying family systems
theories and techniques. The term includes the evaluation and
remediation of cognitive, affective, behavioral, or relational
dysfunction in the context of marriage or family systems. including
utilization of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, the International Classification of Diseases and other
diagnostic classification systems and the billing codes therein,
for evaluation, classification, treatment, and other activities by
a person licensed under this chapter, in connection with any claim
for payment or reimbursement from a health insurance policy issuer
or any other payor.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the votes necessary for immediate effect, this
Act take effect September 1, 2015.