By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 1021
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain examination requirements for physicians.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 155.051, Occupations
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to an [The time
  frame to pass each part of the examination described by Subsection
  (a) is extended to 10 years and the anniversary date to pass each
  part of the examination described by Subsection (b) is extended to
  the 10th anniversary if the] applicant who[:
               [(1)]  is specialty board certified by a specialty
  board that:
               (1) [(A)]  is a member of the American Board of Medical
  Specialties; or
               (2) [(B)]  is approved by the American Osteopathic
  Association [a member of the Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists; or
               [(2)     has been issued a faculty temporary license, as
  prescribed by board rule, and has practiced under such a license for
  a minimum of 12 months and, at the conclusion of the 12-month
  period, has been recommended to the board by the chief
  administrative officer and the president of the institution in
  which the applicant practiced under the faculty temporary license].
         SECTION 2.  Subsections (a) and (d), Section 155.056,
  Occupations Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  An applicant must pass:
               (1)  each individual part of an examination within five 
  [three] attempts; and
               (2)  all parts of an examination collectively within
  nine attempts.
         (d)  The limitation on examination attempts by an applicant
  under Subsection (a) does not apply to an applicant who[:
               [(1)     is licensed and in good standing as a physician in
  another state;
               [(2)  has been licensed for at least five years;
               [(3)     does not hold a medical license in the other state
  that has any restrictions, disciplinary orders, or probation; and
               [(4)     passed all but one part of the examination
  approved by the board within three attempts and:
                     [(A)     passed the remaining part of the examination
  within one additional attempt; or
                     [(B)     passed the remaining part of the examination
  within six attempts if the applicant:
                           [(i)]  is specialty board certified by a
  specialty board that:
               (1) [(a)]  is a member of the American Board of Medical
  Specialties; or
               (2) [(b)]  is approved by the American Osteopathic
  Association[; and
                           [(ii)     has completed in this state an
  additional two years of postgraduate medical training approved by
  the board].
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.