1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1525
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     April 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 22, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1525                   By:  Madla
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the practice of dietetics.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Licensed Dietitian Act (Article 4512h,
1-13     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subdivision
1-14     (10) and adding Subdivision (13) to read as follows:
1-15                 (10)  "Nutrition services" means:
1-16                       (A)  assessing the nutritional needs of
1-17     individuals and groups and determining resources and constraints in
1-18     the practice;
1-19                       (B)  establishing priorities, goals, and
1-20     objectives that meet nutritional needs and are consistent with
1-21     available resources and constraints;
1-22                       (C)  providing nutrition counseling in health and
1-23     disease;
1-24                       (D)  developing, implementing, and managing
1-25     nutritional care systems; [or]
1-26                       (E)  evaluating, making changes in, and
1-27     maintaining appropriate standards of quality in food and
1-28     nutritional care services; or
1-29                       (F)  providing medical nutrition therapy or a
1-30     component of medical nutrition therapy.
1-31                 (13)  "Medical nutrition therapy" means nutrition
1-32     assessment, therapy, and counseling services furnished by a
1-33     licensed dietitian.
1-34           SECTION 2.  Section 6, Licensed Dietitian Act (Article 4512h,
1-35     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d)
1-36     to read as follows:
1-37           (d)  The board may adopt procedures and standards necessary
1-38     to determine the qualifications of a person licensed under this Act
1-39     to provide nutrition services under a law administered by another
1-40     state agency.  Notwithstanding any other law or rule, the board is
1-41     the only state agency authorized to determine the qualifications of
1-42     a person licensed under this Act to provide those services.
1-43           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-44           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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