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.