1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 152
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 7, 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 6, Nays 1; February 5, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the appeal of certain determinations by the Texas Board
 1-9     of Chiropractic Examiners.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 201.510, Occupations
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A person whose license to practice chiropractic has been
1-14     revoked or suspended or against whom the board has imposed an
1-15     administrative penalty may appeal to a Travis County district court
1-16     [in the county where the person resides].
1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a license revoked or
1-18     suspended or an administrative penalty imposed on or after the
1-19     effective date of this Act.  A license revoked or suspended or an
1-20     administrative penalty imposed before the effective date of this
1-21     Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the license was
1-22     revoked or suspended or the administrative penalty was imposed, and
1-23     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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