By: Madla S.B. No. 1525 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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(10), Licensed Dieticians Act, (Article 1-4 4512h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended to read as 1-5 follows: 1-6 (10) "Nutrition services" means: 1-7 (A) assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and 1-8 groups and determining resources and constraints in the practice; 1-9 (B) establishing priorities, goals, and objectives 1-10 that meet nutritional needs and are consistent with available 1-11 resources and constraints; 1-12 (C) providing nutrition counseling in health and 1-13 disease; 1-14 (D) developing, implementing, and managing nutritional 1-15 care systems; or 1-16 (E) evaluating, making changes in, and maintaining 1-17 appropriate standards of quality in food and nutritional care 1-18 services. 1-19 (F) providing medical nutrition therapy or any 1-20 component thereof. 1-21 SECTION 2. Section 2, Licensed Dieticians Act, (Article 1-22 4512h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding new 2-1 subsection (13) to read as follows: 2-2 (13) "Medical nutrition therapy" means nutritional, 2-3 diagnostic, therapy and counseling services which are furnished by 2-4 a licensed dietician, including nutrition assessment and nutrition 2-5 counseling. 2-6 SECTION 3. Section 6, Licensed Dieticians Act, (Article 2-7 4512h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding a new 2-8 subsection (d) to read as follows: 2-9 (d) The board may adopt procedures and standards necessary 2-10 to determine the qualifications of persons licensed under this Act 2-11 to provide nutrition services pursuant to law administered by other 2-12 agencies of the state. Notwithstanding any other law or rule, the 2-13 board is the sole agency authorized to determine such 2-14 qualifications of persons licensed under this Act. 2-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.