By: Perry  S.B. No. 161
         (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2022;
  February 15, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Health & Human Services; April 17, 2023, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health
  care practitioners.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 112, Occupations Code, is amended by
  adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER C. COMPLAINT REFERRALS
         Sec. 112.101.  COMPLAINTS AGAINST HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER
  LICENSED BY DIFFERENT LICENSING ENTITY. (a) Notwithstanding any
  other law, a licensing entity that receives a complaint concerning
  a health care practitioner who holds a license issued by a different
  licensing entity shall promptly forward a copy of the complaint to
  that licensing entity.
         (b)  A licensing entity may not take disciplinary action
  based on a complaint against a health care practitioner who holds a
  license issued by a different licensing entity unless that
  licensing entity refers the complaint back to the licensing entity
  that received the complaint for investigation and resolution.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a complaint filed against a health care practitioner on or after the
  effective date of this Act. A complaint filed before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
  complaint was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         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, 2023.
 
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