Tex. Occ. Code § 351.307 · Subchapter G. LICENSE RENEWAL
GOVERNMENTAL SERVICE, TRAINING, OR EDUCATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may obtain reinstatement of an expired license without paying a lapsed renewal fee or other fee and without passing an examination if:
(1) the license holder's license expired while the license holder was engaged in:
(A) active duty with a United States military service or with the United States Public Health Service;
(B) full-time federal service; or
(C) training or education under the supervision of the United States, before induction into a United States military service;
(2) termination of the license holder's service, training, or education occurred other than by dishonorable discharge; and
(3) not later than the first anniversary of the date of termination of the service, training, or education, the license holder provides the board with an affidavit stating that:
(A) the license holder was engaged in the service, training, or education; and
(B) termination of the service, training, or education occurred other than by dishonorable discharge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.351.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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