1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 323
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1995; January 26, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the licensing of certain physicians who are certified
1-9 by a medical specialty board.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3.04, Medical Practice Act (Article
1-12 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending
1-13 Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-14 follows:
1-15 (a) An applicant, to be eligible for the examination and
1-16 issuance of a license, must present satisfactory proof to the board
1-17 that the applicant:
1-18 (1) is at least 21 years of age;
1-19 (2) is of good professional character;
1-20 (3) has completed 60 semester hours of college courses
1-21 other than in medical school, which courses would be acceptable, at
1-22 the time of completion, to The University of Texas for credit on a
1-23 bachelor of arts degree or a bachelor of science degree; and
1-24 (4) is a graduate of an acceptable medical or
1-25 osteopathic school or college that was approved by the board at the
1-26 time the degree was conferred and has completed a one-year program
1-27 of graduate medical training approved by the board.
1-28 (d) To be recognized by the board for the purposes of this
1-29 subchapter, all medical <allopathic> or osteopathic medical
1-30 education received by the applicant <instruction taught> in the
1-31 United States must be accredited by an accrediting body officially
1-32 recognized by the United States Department of Education <and the
1-33 Council on Postsecondary Accreditation> as the accrediting body for
1-34 medical education leading to the doctor of medicine degree or the
1-35 doctor of osteopathy degree in the United States. This subsection
1-36 does not apply to postgraduate medical education or training.
1-37 (f) An applicant who is unable to comply with the education
1-38 requirements of Subsection (d) of this section is eligible for an
1-39 unrestricted license if the applicant is specialty board certified
1-40 by a board approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties or
1-41 the American Osteopathic Association.
1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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