Tex. Health & Safety Code § 491.151 · Subchapter D. HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
PROHIBITED ACTION AGAINST LICENSE HOLDER OR MEDICAID PARTICIPANT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A state licensing board may not revoke, fail to renew, suspend, or take any action against a health care provider's license issued under Title 3, Occupations Code, based solely on the provider's recommendation to an eligible patient regarding access to or treatment with an individualized investigational treatment.
(b) The Health and Human Services Commission may not take action against a health care provider that adversely affects the provider's participation in Medicaid based solely on the provider's recommendation for a patient to access an individualized investigational treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 285 (S.B. 984), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.491.V3.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 491.151; this is the one the Council prints in hs.491.v3.htm
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