1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to physicians who may provide certain mental health
1-3 services.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 571.003(18), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (18) "Physician" means:
1-8 (A) a person licensed to practice medicine in
1-9 this state;
1-10 (B) [or] a person employed by a federal agency
1-11 who has a license to practice medicine in any state; or
1-12 (C) a person authorized to perform medical acts
1-13 under an institutional permit at a Texas postgraduate training
1-14 program approved by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical
1-15 Education, the American Osteopathic Association, or the Texas State
1-16 Board of Medical Examiners.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 677 was passed by the House on March
24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 677 was passed by the Senate on April
29, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor