By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 627
(In the Senate - Filed December 16, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
March 4, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; March 4, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the licensing and regulation of dietitians.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 701.151(b), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The commission or the department, as appropriate,
shall:
(1) adopt and publish a code of ethics;
(2) establish the qualifications [and fitness] of
applicants for licenses, including renewed and reciprocal
licenses; and
(3) request and receive any necessary assistance from
state educational institutions or other state agencies.
SECTION 2. Section 701.251(b), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Unless the person holds an appropriate license issued
under this chapter, a person may not:
(1) use the title or represent or imply that the person
has the title "licensed dietitian" [or "provisional licensed
dietitian"] or use the letters "LD" [or "PLD"]; or
(2) use a facsimile of that title [those titles] to
indicate or imply that the person is a licensed dietitian [or
provisional licensed dietitian].
SECTION 3. Section 701.304, Occupations Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 701.304. GROUNDS FOR REFUSING RENEWAL. The commission
or department may refuse to renew the license of a person who fails
to pay an administrative penalty imposed against the person under
Subchapter F, Chapter 51 [K], unless enforcement of the penalty is
stayed or a court has ordered that the administrative penalty is not
owed.
SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Occupations Code
are repealed:
(1) Section 701.002(9);
(2) Section 701.1511; and
(3) Section 701.403.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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