Bill Text: TX SB1264 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the practice of podiatry.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Finance [SB1264 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1264-Introduced.html
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| By: Uresti | S.B. No. 1264 | |
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| relating to the practice of podiatry. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 202.001(a)(4), Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (4) "Podiatry" means the treatment of or offer to | ||
| treat any disease, disorder, physical injury, deformity, or ailment | ||
| of the human foot and ankle by any system or method. The term | ||
| includes podiatric medicine. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 202.253(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The board may refuse to admit a person to an | ||
| examination, and may refuse to issue a license to practice podiatry | ||
| to a person, for: | ||
| (1) presenting to the board a license, certificate, or | ||
| diploma that was illegally or fraudulently obtained or engaging in | ||
| fraud or deception in passing the examination; | ||
| (2) being convicted of: | ||
| (A) a felony; | ||
| (B) a crime that involves moral turpitude; or | ||
| (C) an offense under Section 202.606; | ||
| (3) engaging in habits of intemperance or drug | ||
| addiction that in the board's opinion would endanger the health, | ||
| well-being, or welfare of patients; | ||
| (4) engaging in grossly unprofessional or | ||
| dishonorable conduct of a character that in the board's opinion is | ||
| likely to deceive or defraud the public; | ||
| (5) directly or indirectly violating or attempting to | ||
| violate this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter as a | ||
| principal, accessory, or accomplice; | ||
| (6) using any advertising statement of a character | ||
| tending to mislead or deceive the public; | ||
| (7) advertising professional superiority or the | ||
| performance of professional service in a superior manner; | ||
| (8) purchasing, selling, bartering, or using or | ||
| offering to purchase, sell, barter, or use a podiatry degree, | ||
| license, certificate, diploma, or a transcript of a license, | ||
| certificate, or diploma, in or incident to an application to the | ||
| board for a license to practice podiatry; | ||
| (9) altering, with fraudulent intent, a podiatry | ||
| license, certificate, diploma, or a transcript of a podiatry | ||
| license, certificate, or diploma; | ||
| (10) using a podiatry license, certificate, or | ||
| diploma, or a transcript of a podiatry license, certificate, or | ||
| diploma, that has been fraudulently purchased, issued, | ||
| counterfeited, or materially altered; | ||
| (11) impersonating, or acting as proxy for, another | ||
| person in a podiatry license examination; | ||
| (12) impersonating a license holder, or permitting | ||
| another person to use the license holder's license to practice | ||
| podiatry in this state, to treat or offer to treat, by any method, | ||
| conditions and ailments of human feet and ankles; | ||
| (13) directly or indirectly employing a person whose | ||
| license to practice podiatry has been suspended or associating in | ||
| the practice of podiatry with a person whose license to practice | ||
| podiatry has been suspended or who has been convicted of the | ||
| unlawful practice of podiatry in this state or elsewhere; | ||
| (14) wilfully making in the application for a license | ||
| to practice podiatry a material misrepresentation or material | ||
| untrue statement; | ||
| (15) being unable to practice podiatry with reasonable | ||
| skill and safety to a patient because of age, illness, drunkenness, | ||
| or excessive use of drugs, narcotics, chemicals, or other | ||
| substances or as a result of a mental or physical condition; | ||
| (16) failing to practice podiatry in an acceptable | ||
| manner consistent with public health and welfare; | ||
| (17) being removed, suspended, or disciplined in | ||
| another manner by the podiatrist's peers in a professional podiatry | ||
| association or society, whether local, regional, state, or national | ||
| in scope, or being disciplined by a licensed hospital or the medical | ||
| staff of a hospital, including removal, suspension, limitation of | ||
| hospital privileges, or other disciplinary action, if the board | ||
| determines that the action was: | ||
| (A) based on unprofessional conduct or | ||
| professional incompetence likely to harm the public; and | ||
| (B) appropriate and reasonably supported by | ||
| evidence submitted to the association, society, hospital, or | ||
| medical staff; or | ||
| (18) having repeated or recurring meritorious health | ||
| care liability claims filed against the podiatrist that in the | ||
| board's opinion are evidence of professional incompetence likely to | ||
| injure the public. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 202.254(d), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (d) The examination must cover the subjects of anatomy, | ||
| chemistry, dermatology, diagnosis, pharmacology, pathology, | ||
| physiology, microbiology, orthopedics, and podiatry, as related to | ||
| ailments of the human foot and ankle. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
