86R13923 SOS-F
By: Sheffield H.B. No. 4325
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment and maintenance of a glaucoma
comanagement registry.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 153, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 153.017 to read as follows:
Sec. 153.017. GLAUCOMA COMANAGEMENT REGISTRY. (a) The
board shall:
(1) establish and maintain a registry of
ophthalmologists engaged in the comanagement of patients with
therapeutic optometrists under Section 351.3581; and
(2) make the registry available to the public through
a link on the board's Internet website.
(b) The registry must be searchable by:
(1) the name of the ophthalmologist;
(2) the name of the therapeutic optometrist; and
(3) the county that an ophthalmologist in the registry
lists as a primary practice location.
(c) An ophthalmologist engaged in the comanagement of
patients under Section 351.3581 shall provide to the board the name
of each therapeutic optometrist with whom the ophthalmologist is
comanaging patients for inclusion in the comanagement registry
maintained under this section.
(d) The board shall establish procedures to allow an
ophthalmologist who provides information for inclusion in the
comanagement registry maintained under this section to update the
information through the registry's Internet website. The board
shall require the ophthalmologist to update the information at
least annually.
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the Texas Medical
Board shall establish the registry required by Section 153.017,
Occupations Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.