By: Uresti	S.B. No. 622
	(In the Senate - Filed February 18, 2015;
	February 23, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Health and Human Services; March 30, 2015, reported favorably by
	the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2015, sent to
	printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the physician assistant board.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 204.052(a), Occupations Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a)  The physician assistant board consists of 13 [nine]
	members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the
	senate as follows:
	(1)  seven [three] practicing physician assistant
	members who each have at least five years of clinical experience as
	a physician assistant;
	(2)  three physician members who are licensed in this
	state and who supervise physician assistants; and
	(3)  three public members who are not licensed as a
	physician or physician assistant.
	SECTION 2.  Section 204.054(a), Occupations Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a)  Members of the physician assistant board are appointed
	for staggered six-year terms. The terms of four or five [three]
	members, as applicable, expire on February 1 of each odd-numbered
	year.
	SECTION 3.  Section 204.055, Occupations Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 204.055.  OFFICERS. The governor shall designate a
	physician assistant member of the physician assistant board as the
	presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the will
	of the governor.  The physician assistant board shall select from
	its membership a secretary to serve a one-year term.
	SECTION 4.  Not later than November 1, 2015, the governor
	shall appoint four members to the physician assistant board as
	provided by Section 204.052(a)(1), Occupations Code, as amended by
	this Act, as follows:
	(1)  one member for a term expiring February 1, 2017;
	(2)  one member for a term expiring February 1, 2019;
	and
	(3)  two members for terms expiring February 1, 2021.
	SECTION 5.  If, on the effective date of this Act, the
	presiding officer of the physician assistant board does not meet
	the qualifications for office as presiding officer under Section
	204.055, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, the presiding
	officer is removed from office as presiding officer on that date.
	As soon as practicable on or after the effective date of this Act,
	the governor shall appoint a presiding officer who meets the
	qualifications under Section 204.055, Occupations Code, as amended
	by this Act.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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