By: Zerwas (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 2546
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017;
  May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
  Commerce; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to completion of work status reports by a physician
  assistant under the workers' compensation system.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 408.025, Labor Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A treating doctor may delegate to a physician
  assistant who is licensed to practice in this state under Chapter
  204, Occupations Code, the authority to complete and sign a work
  status report regarding an injured employee's ability to return to
  work. The delegating treating doctor is responsible for the acts of
  the physician assistant under this subsection.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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