By: Morrison (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 2512

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023; May 10, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; May 17, 2023, rereferred to Committee on Health & Human Services; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 451.001(1) and (3), Occupations Code, are amended to read as follows:

(1) "Athletic injury" means an injury sustained by a person as a result of physical activity or exercise or the person's participation in an organized sport or sport-related exercise or activity, including interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, recreational, semiprofessional, and professional sports activities.

(3) "Athletic training" means the form of health care that includes principles and methods for managing and treating athletic injuries for athletic individuals in good general health [the practice of preventing, recognizing, assessing, managing, treating, disposing of, and reconditioning athletic injuries] under the direction of a physician licensed in this state or another qualified, licensed health professional who is authorized to refer for health care services within the scope of the person's license, and consists of:

(A) managing the risk of an athletic injury or illness;

(B) preventing an athletic injury or illness;

(C) assessing an athletic injury or illness;

(D) providing immediate emergency care;

(E) providing therapeutic intervention for an athletic injury; and

(F) reconditioning an athletic injury or illness.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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