86R13228 MAW-D
By: Price H.B. No. 2454
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to continuing education requirements for certain health
professionals regarding pain management and the prescribing of
opioids.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 156.055, Occupations Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 156.055. CONTINUING EDUCATION IN PAIN MANAGEMENT AND
PRESCRIPTION OF OPIOIDS [TREATMENT]. A physician licensed under
this subtitle who submits an application for renewal of a license
that designates a direct patient care practice must complete, as
part of [and whose practice includes treating patients for pain is
encouraged to include continuing medical education in pain
treatment among] the hours of continuing medical education
completed to comply with Section 156.051(a)(2), not less than two
hours of continuing medical education regarding pain management and
opioid abuse, including education regarding the reasonable
standard of care in prescribing opioids and other addictive
controlled substances.
SECTION 2. Section 157.0513(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The board, the Texas Board of Nursing, and the Texas
Physician Assistant Board shall jointly develop a process:
(1) to exchange information regarding the names,
locations, and license numbers of each physician, advanced practice
registered nurse, and physician assistant who has entered into a
prescriptive authority agreement;
(2) by which each board shall immediately notify the
other boards when a license holder of the board becomes the subject
of an investigation involving the delegation and supervision of
prescriptive authority, as well as the final disposition of any
such investigation; [and]
(3) by which each board shall maintain and share a list
of the board's license holders who have been subject to a final
adverse disciplinary action for an act involving the delegation and
supervision of prescriptive authority; and
(4) to ensure that each advanced practice registered
nurse or physician assistant who has entered into a prescriptive
authority agreement authorizing the prescribing of opioids is
required to complete not less than two hours of continuing
education in each license renewal period regarding pain management
and opioid abuse, including education regarding the reasonable
standard of care in prescribing opioids and other addictive
controlled substances.
SECTION 3. Section 257.005, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The board shall require a licensed dentist whose
practice includes direct patient care to complete, for each
registration period, not less than two hours of board-approved
continuing education regarding pain management and opioid abuse,
including education regarding the reasonable standard of care in
prescribing opioids and other addictive controlled substances.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for renewal of a registration permit or license
submitted on or after January 1, 2020. A renewal application
submitted before January 1, 2020, is governed by the law in effect
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.