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House Bill 1803 |
House Author: Callegari |
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Effective: 1-1-14 |
Senate Sponsor: Huffman |
House Bill 1803 amends the Health and Safety Code to prohibit the public safety director of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) from requiring a licensed physician to have a separate controlled substances registration for each principal place of business or professional practice where the physician manufactures, distributes, analyzes, dispenses, or possesses a controlled substance. The bill establishes the period of validity of such a registration, provides for its expiration on the same date the physician's registration permit issued by the Texas Medical Board expires, and requires the public safety director to continue to send, for a specified period, renewal notices to controlled substances registrants who are physicians. The bill establishes registration renewal procedures and requirements, including payment of a nonrefundable registration fee capped at $50, and requires the public safety director to adopt, in coordination with the board, any rules necessary to administer the controlled substances registration and renewal process.
House Bill 1803 amends the Occupations Code to require the Texas Medical Board to accept the renewal application and fee submitted by a physician for a controlled substances registration, to adopt related procedures, and to coordinate a physician's registration renewal with physician registration requirements so that the times of registration, payment, and notice are the same and are a minimal burden to the board and physicians. The bill requires the board to send a physician a registration permit renewal application notice and renewal notice for the physician's controlled substances registration with DPS at the same time. The bill clarifies the exemption of a clinic owned or operated by a certain physician or advanced practice nurse from statutory regulation of pain management clinics and establishes that a person who owns or operates a pain management clinic is engaged in the practice of medicine.