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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