Bill Text: TX HB2512 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2512-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2512-Introduced.html
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By: Morrison | H.B. No. 2512 |
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relating to the licensing and regulation of athletic trainers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 451.001(3), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Athletic training" means the form of health care | ||
that is provided [ |
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physician licensed in this state and includes: | ||
(A) managing the risk of injury or illness; | ||
(B) preventing injury or illness; | ||
(C) assessing an injury or illness; | ||
(D) providing immediate emergency care and | ||
therapeutic intervention for an injury or illness; | ||
(E) reconditioning an injury or illness; and | ||
(F) administering other health care [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 451.153(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) An applicant for an athletic trainer license must: | ||
(1) have met the athletic training curriculum | ||
requirements of a college or university approved by the commission | ||
and give proof of graduation; | ||
(2) hold a degree or certificate in physical therapy | ||
and have completed: | ||
(A) a basic athletic training course from an | ||
accredited college or university; and | ||
(B) an apprenticeship described by Subsection | ||
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(3) have a degree in corrective therapy with at least a | ||
minor in physical education or health that includes a basic | ||
athletic training course and meet the apprenticeship requirement or | ||
any other requirement established by the commission; | ||
(4) have completed, or have 30 credit hours or less | ||
remaining to complete, the athletic training curriculum | ||
requirements of a college or university that is accredited by a | ||
nationally recognized athletic training accrediting organization | ||
and approved by the board; or | ||
(5) have completed, or have 30 credit hours or less | ||
remaining to complete, a baccalaureate degree or postbaccalaureate | ||
degree from a college or university that requires: | ||
(A) not fewer than 24 credit hours related to the | ||
practice of athletic training; and | ||
(B) completion of an apprenticeship program in | ||
athletic training clinical practice consisting of not fewer than | ||
1,800 hours completed over the course of not fewer than five | ||
separate semesters, at least 1,500 hours of which must be completed | ||
while the applicant is a student at the college or university. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 451.001(1), Occupations Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 451.153, Occupations Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to an application for an original athletic | ||
trainer license submitted on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. An application for an original athletic trainer license | ||
submitted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |