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House Bill 2098 |
House Author: Davis, John |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Uresti |
House Bill 2098 amends the Business Organizations Code to authorize licensed physicians and licensed physician assistants to form a corporation, create a partnership, or form and own a professional association or a professional limited liability company to perform a professional service that falls within the scope and practice of those practitioners and, for a corporation, that meets other specified criteria. The bill establishes requirements and limitations relating to the authority of physicians and physician assistants who form such an entity and on the ownership interest in the entity by a physician assistant or combination of physician assistants. It prohibits its provisions relating to the formation of such an entity from being construed to allow the practice of medicine by someone not licensed as a physician under state law or to allow a person not licensed as a physician to direct the activities of a physician in the practice of medicine. The bill provides for the continued exercise of regulatory authority by the Texas Medical Board and the Texas Physician Assistant Board over their respective license holders who form a corporation or partnership in accordance with the bill's provisions.
House Bill 2098 amends the Occupations Code to establish recordkeeping requirements for physicians and physician assistants who jointly own entities under those provisions and for the practitioners' respective boards.