Bill Text: TX HB3505 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Optometry Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred directly to subcommittee by chair [HB3505 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3505-Introduced.html
| By: VanDeaver | H.B. No. 3505 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Texas Optometry Board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 351.151, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The board may provide an interpretation of a provision | ||
| of this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter, including by | ||
| issuing an advisory opinion or declaratory ruling. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 351, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 351.170 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.170. SOLE AUTHORITY OVER PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY. | ||
| The board has sole authority to regulate optometrists and | ||
| therapeutic optometrists and to determine the scope of practice of | ||
| an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2019, the Texas | ||
| Optometry Board shall adopt rules necessary to implement the | ||
| changes in law made by this Act to Chapter 351, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
