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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 calenders 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.