By: Hall, Sparks S.B. No. 2422
(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
April 28, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; April 28, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2422 By: Perry
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to investigations and disciplinary or punitive action by
the Texas Medical Board regarding certain treatments or practices
regarding COVID-19 and to the required expungement of certain
records.
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. LIMITATION ON INVESTIGATIVE AND DISCIPLINARY
AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding any other law, the board may not
investigate or take disciplinary or other punitive action against a
person regulated by the board for:
(1) prescribing or advocating for the use of
ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or budesonide in the prevention or
treatment of COVID-19;
(2) making statements regarding the efficacy of masks
in preventing the transmission of COVID-19; or
(3) failing to wear or require others to wear masks
intended to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in connection with
the person's practice, other than in areas where it was customary to
wear masks before the COVID-19 pandemic.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law and not later than
December 1, 2025, the Texas Medical Board shall:
(1) review its records and expunge any record created
on or after January 1, 2020, related to the investigation of or
disciplinary or other punitive action taken against a person
regulated by the board if the record contains any of the following
words:
(A) budesonide;
(B) hydroxychloroquine;
(C) ivermectin; or
(D) mask; and
(2) in connection with each record expunged under
Subdivision (1), vacate any disciplinary action imposed and rescind
any other punitive action taken by the board.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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