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  By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 404
 
  (Coleman)
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 404:  No.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibiting certain health care practitioners from
  providing alcoholic beverages to certain persons; imposing an
  administrative penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 3, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 116 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 116. PROVIDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PROHIBITED
         Sec. 116.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Health care practitioner" means an individual
  issued a license, certificate, registration, title, permit, or
  other authorization under this title to engage in a health care
  profession.
               (2)  "Licensing entity" means a department,
  commission, board, office, authority, or other agency of the state
  that regulates health care practitioners under this title.
         Sec. 116.002.  APPLICABILITY.  This chapter applies only to
  a health care practitioner who is authorized to:
               (1)  administer anesthesia or provide anesthesia
  services in an outpatient setting, including the health care
  practitioner's office; or
               (2)  prescribe or administer a prescription drug, as
  defined by Section 551.003.
         Sec. 116.003.  PROVIDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PROHIBITED.
  (a)  Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (b), a health care
  practitioner or an employee or agent of a health care practitioner
  may not provide or otherwise make available to a patient or to a
  person accompanying the patient in the health care practitioner's
  office, including the patient's parent or guardian, an alcoholic
  beverage subject to regulation under the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
         (b)  This section does not apply to:
               (1)  alcohol when used as, or contained in, a drug for
  the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of
  illness, injury, or disease; or
               (2)  an alcoholic beverage provided or otherwise made
  available at a social event held in a health care practitioner's
  office outside of normal business hours.
         (c)  A licensing entity may adopt rules necessary to
  implement this chapter.
         Sec. 116.004.  IMPOSITION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY. The
  appropriate licensing entity may impose an administrative penalty
  against a health care practitioner who violates Section 116.003 or
  a rule or order adopted under that section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.