The medical board must make rules, set licensing standards, process licenses, charge reasonable fees, hold informal hearings, issue sanctions, and set procedures for confidential referrals to the Texas Physician Health Program.
Sec. 602.151. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) The medical board shall: (1) adopt rules reasonably necessary to properly perform its duties under this chapter, including: (A) procedural rules governing investigations, informal hearings, the issuance of cease and desist orders, and disciplinary sanctions; and (B) rules governing character and conduct for applicants or license holders and fitness to practice medical physics in this state; (2) establish qualifications for a medical physicist to practice in this state and the fitness of each applicant for a license or license renewal; (3) establish minimum education and training requirements necessary for a license under this chapter; (4) establish requirements for examinations for licensure; (5) prescribe the application form for a license under this chapter; (6) issue, deny, renew, revoke, cancel, restrict, suspend, or accept the surrender of a license; (7) charge fees that are reasonable and necessary to cover the costs of administering this chapter; (8) conduct informal hearings concerning violations of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter; (9) issue disciplinary sanctions, including agreed orders and non-disciplinary remedial plans; and (10) establish procedures for making a confidential referral to the Texas Physician Health Program established under Chapter 167, and for requiring participation in the program as a prerequisite for issuing or maintaining a license under this chapter. (b) The medical board may include any member of the advisory committee in a proceeding of the medical board related to a power or duty described by Subsection (a) if the medical board considers the expertise of the advisory committee member to be beneficial in the proceeding. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 5.155, eff. April 2, 2015. Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 202), Sec. 2.061, eff. September 1, 2015.