1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 145
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 4, 2000; January 11, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 5, 2001, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; February 5, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to chiropractic facility licenses issued by the Texas
1-9 Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 201.312, Occupations
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The rules adopted under this section must:
1-14 (1) specify the licensing requirements for a
1-15 chiropractic facility;
1-16 (2) prescribe the structure of the facility licensing
1-17 program; and
1-18 (3) provide for the issuance of [only] one facility
1-19 license to an owner of a chiropractic facility for each [without
1-20 regard to the number of] chiropractic facility [facilities] owned
1-21 by the owner.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
1-23 SECTION 3. This Act applies only to a chiropractic facility
1-24 license that is issued or renewed on or after September 1, 2001. A
1-25 license that is issued or renewed before September 1, 2001, is
1-26 governed by the law in effect on the day the license is issued or
1-27 renewed, and that former law is continued in effect for that
1-28 purpose.
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