1-1 By: Farabee (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 3421
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2001;
1-3 April 30, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 7, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
1-6 May 7, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3421 By: Madla
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the licensure of physician assistants.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 204.155(b), Occupations Code, is amended
1-13 to read as follows:
1-14 (b) A temporary license may be [is] valid for not more than
1-15 one year [100 days] after the date issued as determined by board
1-16 rule [and may be extended for not more than an additional 30 days
1-17 after the expiration date of the initial temporary license].
1-18 SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 204, Occupations Code, is
1-19 amended by adding Sections 204.310 and 204.311 to read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 204.310. REQUIRED SUSPENSION OF LICENSE OF INCARCERATED
1-21 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT. Regardless of the offense, the physician
1-22 assistant board shall suspend the license of a physician assistant
1-23 serving a prison term in a state or federal penitentiary during the
1-24 term of the incarceration.
1-25 Sec. 204.311. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION. (a) The presiding
1-26 officer of the physician assistant board, with board approval,
1-27 shall appoint a three-member disciplinary panel consisting of board
1-28 members to determine whether a person's license to practice as a
1-29 physician assistant should be temporarily suspended.
1-30 (b) If the disciplinary panel determines from the evidence
1-31 or information presented to the panel that a person licensed to
1-32 practice as a physician assistant would, by the person's
1-33 continuation in practice, constitute a continuing threat to the
1-34 public welfare, the disciplinary panel shall temporarily suspend
1-35 the license of that person.
1-36 (c) A license may be suspended under this section without
1-37 notice or hearing on the complaint if:
1-38 (1) institution of proceedings for a hearing before
1-39 the physician assistant board is initiated simultaneously with the
1-40 temporary suspension; and
1-41 (2) a hearing is held under Chapter 2001, Government
1-42 Code, and this chapter as soon as possible.
1-43 (d) Notwithstanding Chapter 551, Government Code, the
1-44 disciplinary panel may hold a meeting by telephone conference call
1-45 if immediate action is required and convening of the panel at one
1-46 location is inconvenient for any member of the disciplinary panel.
1-47 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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