Tex. Occ. Code § 603.153 · Subchapter D. MEDICAL BOARD POWERS AND DUTIES
RULES RESTRICTING ADVERTISING OR COMPETITIVE BIDDING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The medical board may not adopt a rule restricting advertising or competitive bidding by a person regulated by the medical board under this chapter except to prohibit a false, misleading, or deceptive practice.
(b) The medical board may not include in rules to prohibit a false, misleading, or deceptive practice by a person regulated by the medical board under this chapter a rule that:
(1) restricts the person's use of any medium for advertising;
(2) restricts the person's personal appearance or use of the person's voice in an advertisement;
(3) relates to the size or duration of any advertisement by the person; or
(4) restricts the use by the person of a trade name in advertising.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 231 (S.B. 403), Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2005.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 5.166, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 202), Sec. 2.103, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.603.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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