By: Madla S.B. No. 1525
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the practice of dietetics.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 2, Licensed Dietitian Act (Article 4512h,
1-4 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subdivision
1-5 (10) and adding Subdivision (13) to read as follows:
1-6 (10) "Nutrition services" means:
1-7 (A) assessing the nutritional needs of
1-8 individuals and groups and determining resources and constraints in
1-9 the practice;
1-10 (B) establishing priorities, goals, and
1-11 objectives that meet nutritional needs and are consistent with
1-12 available resources and constraints;
1-13 (C) providing nutrition counseling in health and
1-14 disease;
1-15 (D) developing, implementing, and managing
1-16 nutritional care systems; [or]
1-17 (E) evaluating, making changes in, and
1-18 maintaining appropriate standards of quality in food and
1-19 nutritional care services; or
1-20 (F) providing medical nutrition therapy or a
1-21 component of medical nutrition therapy.
1-22 (13) "Medical nutrition therapy" means nutrition
1-23 assessment, therapy, and counseling services furnished by a
1-24 licensed dietitian.
2-1 SECTION 2. Section 6, Licensed Dietitian Act (Article 4512h,
2-2 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d)
2-3 to read as follows:
2-4 (d) The board may adopt procedures and standards necessary
2-5 to determine the qualifications of a person licensed under this Act
2-6 to provide nutrition services under a law administered by another
2-7 state agency. Notwithstanding any other law or rule, the board is
2-8 the only state agency authorized to determine the qualifications of
2-9 a person licensed under this Act to provide those services.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.