By: Thompson H.B. No. 2800
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to amending the Medical Practice Act of Texas concerning
reexaminations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 155.056, Occupations code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) An applicant must pass [each part of] an examination
administered or required. [within three attempts, except that an
applicant who has passed all but one part of an examination within
three attempts may take the remaining part of the examination one
additional time.]
(b) [Notwithstanding subsection (a), an applicant is
considered to have satisfied the requirements of this section if
the applicant:] The board may by rule limit the number of attempts
an applicant may take the required exam before passing. However,
the board must consider an applicant to have satisfied all
requirements of this section if the applicant:
(1) passed all but one part of an examination within
three attempts may take the remaining part of the examination one
additional time; or
[1] (2) has passed all but one part of an examination
approved by the board within three attempts and passed the
remaining part of the examination within five attempts [;] and
[complete] completes in this state an additional two years of
post-graduate medical training approved by the board; or
[2] (3) is specialty board certified by a specialty
board that:
(A) is a member of the American Board of Medical
Specialties; [or]
(B) is approved by the American Osteopathic
Association; [and] or
(C) is specialty board certified by a specialty
board that is approved by the board.
Section 2. This act shall be given retroactive application.
Section 3. The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.