By: Cortez (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 387
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019;
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 2, 2019, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 2, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to submission of reports by an advanced practice
registered nurse under the workers' compensation system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 408.025(a-1), Labor Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a-1) A treating doctor may delegate to a physician
assistant who is licensed to practice in this state under Chapter
204, Occupations Code, or an advanced practice registered nurse who
is licensed to practice in this state under Chapter 301,
Occupations Code, the authority to complete and sign a work status
report regarding an injured employee's ability to return to
work. The delegating treating doctor is responsible for the acts
of the physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse
under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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