Tex. Occ. Code § 206.254 · Subchapter F. SCOPE OF PRACTICE
ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AND STANDARDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A surgical assistant and the surgical assistant's delegating physician shall ensure that:
(1) the surgical assistant's scope of function is identified;
(2) the delegation of medical tasks is appropriate to the surgical assistant's level of competence;
(3) the relationship between the surgical assistant and the delegating physician and the access of the surgical assistant to the delegating physician are defined; and
(4) a process is established for evaluating the surgical assistant's performance.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1014, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.206.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
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