By Rodriguez H.B. No. 3034
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of medical rehabilitation services.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, Subchapter F
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) An interdisciplinary team for comprehensive medical
1-7 rehabilitation shall be directed by a licensed physician. An
1-8 interdisciplinary team for comprehensive medical rehabilitation
1-9 shall have available to it, at the hospital at which the services
1-10 are provided or by contract, members of the following professions
1-11 as necessary to meet the treatment needs of the patient:
1-12 (1) physical therapy;
1-13 (2) occupational therapy;
1-14 (3) speech-language pathology;
1-15 (4) therapeutic recreation;
1-16 (5) social services and case management;
1-17 (6) dietetics;
1-18 (7) psychology;
1-19 (8) respiratory therapy;
1-20 (9) rehabilitative nursing;
1-21 (10) American Board for Certification <certified>
1-22 orthotics; and
1-23 (11) American Board for Certification <certified>
2-1 prosthetics.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.