Bill Text: TX HB4515 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of sex offender treatment by certain physicians and psychologists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB4515 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4515-Introduced.html
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By: Raney | H.B. No. 4515 |
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relating to the provision of sex offender treatment by certain | ||
physicians and psychologists. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 110.301(c), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) This section does not apply to: | ||
(1) a physician whose treatment of a sex offender is | ||
limited to prescribing medication to the sex offender; or | ||
(2) a person who is licensed in this state to practice | ||
as a physician or psychologist and has completed: | ||
(A) at least 24 hours of training in the specific | ||
area of sex offender assessment and treatment; and | ||
(B) at least eight hours of continuing education | ||
training in the specific area of sex offender assessment and | ||
treatment during each 12-month period in which the physician or | ||
psychologist provides sex offender treatment or acts as a sex | ||
offender treatment provider. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. |