By: Buckingham S.B. No. 1502
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
April 19, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 19, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a determination by the Texas Medical Board of a
physician's specialty board certification.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 156.001, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) A determination by the board regarding whether a
physician is specialty board certified:
(1) must be based on the physician's initial specialty
board certification by a specialty board organization acceptable to
the board; and
(2) may not be based on the physician's maintenance of
certification after the physician's initial specialty board
certification.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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