By: Nixon S.B. No. 323
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the licensing of certain physicians who are certified
1-2 by a medical specialty board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3.04, Medical Practice Act (Article
1-5 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending
1-6 Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) An applicant, to be eligible for the examination and
1-9 issuance of a license, must present satisfactory proof to the board
1-10 that the applicant:
1-11 (1) is at least 21 years of age;
1-12 (2) is of good professional character;
1-13 (3) has completed 60 semester hours of college courses
1-14 other than in medical school, which courses would be acceptable, at
1-15 the time of completion, to The University of Texas for credit on a
1-16 bachelor of arts degree or a bachelor of science degree; and
1-17 (4) is a graduate of an acceptable medical or
1-18 osteopathic school or college that was approved by the board at the
1-19 time the degree was conferred and has completed a one-year program
1-20 of graduate medical training approved by the board.
1-21 (d) To be recognized by the board for the purposes of this
1-22 subchapter, all medical <allopathic> or osteopathic medical
1-23 education received by the applicant <instruction taught> in the
1-24 United States must be accredited by an accrediting body officially
2-1 recognized by the United States Department of Education <and the
2-2 Council on Postsecondary Accreditation> as the accrediting body for
2-3 medical education leading to the doctor of medicine degree or the
2-4 doctor of osteopathy degree in the United States. This subsection
2-5 does not apply to postgraduate medical education or training.
2-6 (f) An applicant who is unable to comply with the
2-7 requirements of Subsection (d) of this section is eligible for an
2-8 unrestricted license if the applicant:
2-9 (1) received such medical education in a hospital or
2-10 teaching institution sponsoring or participating in a program of
2-11 graduate medical education accredited by the Accrediting Council
2-12 for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic
2-13 Association, or the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners in the
2-14 same subject as the medical or osteopathic medical education if the
2-15 hospital or teaching institution has an agreement with the
2-16 applicant's school; or
2-17 (2) is specialty board certified by a board approved
2-18 by the American Osteopathic Association or the American Board of
2-19 Medical Specialties.
2-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.