Bill Text: TX HB3995 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the practice of marriage and family therapy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3995 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3995-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Romero, Jr. | H.B. No. 3995 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3995: | |||
| By: Crownover | C.S.H.B. No. 3995 | ||
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| relating to the practice of marriage and family therapy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 502.0021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 502.0021. PRACTICE OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY. | ||
| (a) "Marriage and family therapy" means the provision of | ||
| professional therapy services to individuals, families, or married | ||
| couples, alone or in groups, that involve applying family systems | ||
| theories and techniques, including the evaluation and remediation | ||
| of cognitive, affective, behavioral, or relational dysfunction in | ||
| the context of marriage or family systems. | ||
| (b) The practice of marriage and family therapy may include | ||
| the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental | ||
| Disorders, the International Classification of Diseases, and other | ||
| diagnostic classification systems and the use of billing codes in | ||
| connection with those systems for evaluation, classification, | ||
| treatment, and other activities by a person licensed under this | ||
| chapter, in connection with a claim for payment or reimbursement | ||
| from a health insurance policy issuer or other payor. | ||
| (c) The practice of marriage and family therapy does not | ||
| include prescribing medication, treating a physical disease, or | ||
| providing any service outside the scope of practice of a licensed | ||
| marriage and family therapist or licensed marriage and family | ||
| therapist associate. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.003(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a | ||
| person may not be employed by a school district as an audiologist, | ||
| occupational therapist, physical therapist, physician, nurse, | ||
| school psychologist, associate school psychologist, licensed | ||
| professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, social | ||
| worker, or speech language pathologist unless the person is | ||
| licensed by the state agency that licenses that profession and may | ||
| perform specific services within those professions for a school | ||
| district only if the person holds the appropriate credential from | ||
| the appropriate state agency. As long as a person employed by a | ||
| district before September 1, 2011, to perform marriage and family | ||
| therapy under Chapter 502 [ |
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| Occupations Code, is employed by the same district, the person is | ||
| not required to hold a license as a marriage and family therapist to | ||
| perform marriage and family therapy with that district. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 502.002(6), Occupations Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
