By Dear H.B. No. 1633 74R6091 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of doctor of osteopathic medicine as an 1-3 appropriate legally required identification. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Healing Art Identification Act 1-6 (Article 4590e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 Sec. 3. Healing Art Identifications. Every person licensed 1-9 to practice the healing art heretofore or hereafter by either the 1-10 Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, the State Board of Dental 1-11 Examiners, the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Texas 1-12 State Board of Examiners in Optometry, the State Board of Chiropody 1-13 Examiners and the State Board of Naturopathic Examiners shall in 1-14 the professional use of his name on any sign, pamphlet, stationery, 1-15 letterhead, signature, or on any other such means of professional 1-16 identification, written or printed, designate in the manner set 1-17 forth in this Act the system of the healing art which he is by his 1-18 license permitted to practice. The following are the legally 1-19 required identifications, one of which must be used by 1-20 practitioners of the healing art: (1) If licensed by the Texas 1-21 State Board of Medical Examiners on the basis of the degree Doctor 1-22 of Medicine: physician and/or surgeon, M.D.; doctor, M.D.; doctor 1-23 of medicine, M.D. 1-24 (2) If licensed by the Texas State Board of Medical 2-1 Examiners on the basis of the degree Doctor of Osteopathy: 2-2 physician and/or surgeon, D.O.; Osteopathic physician and/or 2-3 surgeon; doctor, D.O.; doctor of osteopathy; doctor of osteopathic 2-4 medicine; osteopath; D.O. 2-5 (3) If licensed by the State Board of Dental 2-6 Examiners: dentist; doctor, D.D.S.; doctor of dental surgery; 2-7 D.D.S.; doctor of dental medicine, D.M.D. 2-8 (4) If licensed by the Texas Board of Chiropractic 2-9 Examiners: chiropractor; doctor, D.C.; doctor of Chiropractic; 2-10 D.C. 2-11 (5) If licensed by the Texas State Board of Examiners 2-12 in Optometry: optometrist; doctor, optometrist; doctor of 2-13 optometry; O.D. 2-14 (6) If a practitioner of the healing art is licensed 2-15 by the State Board of Podiatry Examiners, he shall use one of the 2-16 following identifications: chiropodist; doctor, D.S.C.; Doctor of 2-17 Surgical Chiropody; D.S.C.; podiatrist; doctor, D.P.M.; Doctor of 2-18 Podiatric Medicine; D.P.M. 2-19 (7) If licensed by the State Board of Naturopathic 2-20 Examiners: naturopathic physician; physician, N.D.; doctor of 2-21 naturopathy; N.D.; doctor, N.D. 2-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-1 passage, and it is so enacted.