By: Bernsen S.B. No. 1106 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the Medical Liability and Insurance 1-3 Improvement Act of Texas to optometrists and therapeutic 1-4 optometrists. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subdivision (3), Subsection (a), Section 1.03, 1-7 Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act of Texas (Article 1-8 4590i, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as 1-9 follows: 1-10 (3) "Health care provider" means any person, 1-11 partnership, professional association, corporation, facility, or 1-12 institution duly licensed or chartered by the State of Texas to 1-13 provide health care as a registered nurse, hospital, dentist, 1-14 podiatrist, pharmacist, optometrist or therapeutic optometrist, or 1-15 nursing home, or an officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in 1-16 the course and scope of his employment. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and 1-18 applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that 1-19 date. A cause of action that accrued before the effective date of 1-20 this Act is governed by the law applicable to the action 1-21 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-22 continued in effect for that purpose.