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By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                             H.B. No. 2158
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2005; 
May 12, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 
and Human Services; May 18, 2005, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 18, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to an exemption from annual registration fees for a 
retired physician who provides volunteer medical services in a 
disaster.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 156.002, Occupations Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  A retired physician whose only practice is voluntary 
medical care for a disaster relief organization is exempt from the 
registration permit fee requirement.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only 
to a registration permit fee that becomes due on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  A registration permit fee that becomes 
due before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the 
fee became due, and the former law is continued in effect for that 
purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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