1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to medical services ordered by physicians in certain other
1-3 states for residents of this state.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.06(i), Medical Practice Act (Article
1-6 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (i) A person who is physically located in another
1-9 jurisdiction but who, through the use of any medium, including an
1-10 electronic medium, performs an act that is part of patient care
1-11 service initiated in this state, including the taking of an X-ray
1-12 examination or the preparation of pathological material for
1-13 examination, and that would affect the diagnosis or treatment of
1-14 the patient, is engaged in the practice of medicine in this state
1-15 for the purposes of this Act and is subject to this Act and to
1-16 appropriate regulation by the board. This subsection does not
1-17 apply to:
1-18 (1) the acts of a medical specialist located in
1-19 another jurisdiction who provides only episodic consultation
1-20 services on request to a person licensed in this state who
1-21 practices in the same medical specialty;
1-22 (2) the acts of a physician located in another
1-23 jurisdiction who is providing consultation services to a medical
1-24 school as defined in Section 61.501, Education Code; [or]
2-1 (3) the acts of a physician located in another
2-2 jurisdiction who is providing consultation services to an
2-3 institution defined in either Subchapter C, Chapter 73, Education
2-4 Code, or Subchapter K, Chapter 74, Education Code; or
2-5 (4) the acts of a physician located in another
2-6 jurisdiction of a state of the United States whose borders are
2-7 contiguous with the State of Texas who is the treating physician of
2-8 a patient and orders home health or hospice services for a resident
2-9 of this state to be delivered by a home and community support
2-10 services agency licensed in this state.
2-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3083 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3083 was passed by the Senate on May
20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor