By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1525
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                                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.