1-1 By: Janek (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 677
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1999;
1-3 March 29, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 Services; April 21, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 21, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to physicians who may provide certain mental health
1-9 services.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 571.003(18), Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (18) "Physician" means:
1-14 (A) a person licensed to practice medicine in
1-15 this state;
1-16 (B) [or] a person employed by a federal agency
1-17 who has a license to practice medicine in any state; or
1-18 (C) a person authorized to perform medical acts
1-19 under an institutional permit at a Texas postgraduate training
1-20 program approved by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical
1-21 Education, the American Osteopathic Association, or the Texas State
1-22 Board of Medical Examiners.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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