By: Campbell  S.B. No. 1086
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2023; March 9, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
  Services; April 6, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 6, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the administration of the Texas Physician Health
  Program; authorizing a surcharge.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 153.051(d), Occupations Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (d)  The board may not set, charge, collect, receive, or
  deposit any of the following fees in excess of:
               (1)  $900 for a license;
               (2)  $400 for a first registration permit;
               (3)  $200 for a temporary license;
               (4)  $400 for renewal of a registration permit;
               (5)  $200 for a physician-in-training permit;
               (6)  $600 for the processing of an application and the
  issuance of a registration for anesthesia in an outpatient setting;
               (7)  $200 for an endorsement to other state medical
  boards;
               (8)  $200 for a duplicate license;
               (9)  $700 for a reinstated license after cancellation
  for cause; or
               (10)  $15 [$1,200] for a surcharge [an annual fee]
  under Section 153.053 to administer [167.011(c) for a program
  participant in] the Texas Physician Health Program, due at the time
  of license issuance and registration permit renewal.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 153, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 153.053 to read as follows:
         Sec. 153.053.  SURCHARGE TO ADMINISTER TEXAS PHYSICIAN
  HEALTH PROGRAM. (a)  The board shall collect an additional
  surcharge not to exceed $15 for each of the following fees:
               (1)  first registration permit; and
               (2)  renewal of a registration permit.
         (b)  The board shall deposit each surcharge collected under
  this section to the credit of the Texas physician health program
  account. The Texas physician health program account is a special
  account in the general revenue fund. Money in the special account
  shall be appropriated only to the board to pay for administration of
  the Texas Physician Health Program under Chapter 167, including
  paying for an initial evaluation by the program's medical director
  or the director's designee. Money in the special account may not be
  used to pay for program participant costs incurred for monitoring
  or for a program participant's own medical costs, including any
  further required evaluations, primary treatment, or continuing
  care. 
         SECTION 3.  Section 167.011, Occupations Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  Section 153.051, Occupations Code, as amended by
  this Act, and Section 153.053, Occupations Code, as added by this
  Act, apply to the initial issuance of a license or the renewal of a
  registration permit under Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code, on
  or after September 1, 2023.  A license initially issued or
  registration permit renewed before September 1, 2023, is governed
  by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this
  Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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