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| 1 | 1 | By: Lucio, Perry S.B. No. 2115 | |
| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2021; April 1, 2021, read | |
| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; | |
| 4 | + | April 26, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | |
| 5 | + | Nays 1; April 26, 2021, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote | |
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| 4 | 9 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 10 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 11 | relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health | |
| 7 | 12 | care practitioners. | |
| 8 | 13 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 14 | SECTION 1. Chapter 112, Occupations Code, is amended by | |
| 10 | 15 | adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 16 | SUBCHAPTER C. COMPLAINT REFERRALS | |
| 12 | 17 | Sec. 112.101. COMPLAINTS AGAINST HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER | |
| 13 | 18 | LICENSED BY DIFFERENT LICENSING ENTITY. (a) Notwithstanding any | |
| 14 | 19 | other law, a licensing entity that receives a complaint concerning | |
| 15 | 20 | a health care practitioner who holds a license issued by a different | |
| 16 | 21 | licensing entity shall promptly forward a copy of the complaint to | |
| 17 | 22 | that licensing entity. | |
| 18 | 23 | (b) A licensing entity may not take disciplinary action | |
| 19 | 24 | based on a complaint against a health care practitioner who holds a | |
| 20 | - | license issued by a different licensing entity unless: | |
| 21 | - | (1) the licensing entity that issued the license | |
| 22 | - | refers the complaint back to the licensing entity that received the | |
| 23 | - | complaint for investigation and resolution; or | |
| 24 | - | (2) the disciplinary action is taken under Subtitle B | |
| 25 | - | for practicing medicine in this state without a license. | |
| 25 | + | license issued by a different licensing entity unless that | |
| 26 | + | licensing entity refers the complaint back to the licensing entity | |
| 27 | + | that received the complaint for investigation and resolution. | |
| 26 | 28 | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | |
| 27 | 29 | a complaint filed against a health care practitioner on or after the | |
| 28 | 30 | effective date of this Act. A complaint filed before the effective | |
| 29 | 31 | date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | |
| 30 | 32 | complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for | |
| 31 | 33 | that purpose. | |
| 32 | 34 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 33 | 35 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 34 | 36 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 35 | 37 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 36 | 38 | Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | |
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