Bill Text: TX HB3052 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the revocation of a pharmacy license for failure to operate as a pharmacy.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3052 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3052-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Dean, Thompson of Harris, Zerwas, Moody, | H.B. No. 3052 | ||
| Oliverson, et al. | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3052: | |||
| By: Thompson of Harris | C.S.H.B. No. 3052 | ||
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| relating to the revocation of a pharmacy license for failure to | ||
| operate as a pharmacy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 565, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 565.0591 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 565.0591. REVOCATION OF PHARMACY LICENSE FOR FAILURE | ||
| TO OPERATE. (a) On discovery by the board that a pharmacy licensed | ||
| under Chapter 560 has ceased to operate for a period of 30 days or | ||
| longer, the board shall notify the pharmacy that the license will be | ||
| revoked. | ||
| (b) The notice must: | ||
| (1) include a statement that the pharmacy license is | ||
| being revoked for violation of Section 565.002(a)(7); and | ||
| (2) inform the license holder of the license holder's | ||
| right to a hearing to contest the revocation. | ||
| (c) Not later than the 20th day after the date the license | ||
| holder receives the notice of revocation under this section, the | ||
| license holder may submit a written request for a hearing to contest | ||
| the revocation. | ||
| (d) If the license holder does not request a hearing within | ||
| the period prescribed by Subsection (c), the board shall: | ||
| (1) enter an order revoking the license; and | ||
| (2) notify the license holder of the order. | ||
| (e) If the license holder requests a hearing within the | ||
| period prescribed by Subsection (c), a panel of three board members | ||
| appointed by the president of the board shall conduct the hearing. | ||
| At the hearing the panel shall determine whether the license holder | ||
| has violated Section 565.002(a)(7). | ||
| (f) If the panel determines that the license holder | ||
| committed the violation, the board shall promptly: | ||
| (1) enter an order revoking the license; and | ||
| (2) notify the license holder of the order. | ||
| (g) Chapter 2001, Government Code, does not apply to a | ||
| determination under Subsection (e). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
