By Giddings                                           H.B. No. 3758
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the approval of doctors who provide medical treatment.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 408.023, Labor Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           (a)  Each doctor licensed in this state on January 1, 1993,
 1-7     is on the commission's list of approved doctors unless subsequently
 1-8     deleted and not reinstated.  The name of a doctor shall be placed
 1-9     on this list of approved doctors when the doctor becomes licensed
1-10     in this state.  A doctor not licensed in this state but licensed in
1-11     another state or jurisdiction who treats employees or evaluates
1-12     employee medical records may [apply to the commission to] not be
1-13     included on the list.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.