Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 211 amends provisions of the Occupations Code relating to the investigation and licensing of chiropractors, optometrists, and therapeutic optometrists. The bill provides for the confidentiality of investigation files of the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Texas Optometry Board and sets out provisions for the release of information to other regulatory or law enforcement agencies and to affected license holders. It provides for the registration, rather than the licensing and regulation, of chiropractic facilities, sets out related procedures, and provides that a licensed chiropractor is subject to disciplinary action for practicing in a facility that the chiropractor knows is not registered. The bill authorizes the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners to renew without reexamination the expired Texas license of a person who has practiced chiropractic in a foreign country for two years preceding an application for renewal and who is currently licensed in good standing in that country and repeals a provision specifying college courses required by an applicant for a chiropractor's license.