Texas Occupations Code Title 3, Chapter 152 - State Board Of Medical Examiners

SUBCHAPTER A ORGANIZATION OF BOARD

• Texas Section 152.001 - Texas Medical Board
  (a) The Texas Medical Board is an agency of the executive branch of state government with the power to regulate the practice of medicine. (b)...
• Texas Section 152.002 - Board Membership
  (a) The board consists of 19 members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate as follows: (1) twelve members who...
• Texas Section 152.003 - Additional Membership Requirements
  (a) In this section: (1) "Direct provider of health care" includes: (A) an athletic trainer; (B) a chiropractor; (C) a dentist; (D) a hospital administrator;...
• Texas Section 152.004 - Membership And Employee Restrictions
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to assist...
• Texas Section 152.0041 - Restriction On Use Of Information
  A board member who is a physician or a physician acting as an agent of the board, including a member of an expert physician panel...
• Texas Section 152.005 - Terms; Vacancy
  (a) Members of the board serve staggered six-year terms. (b) If a vacancy occurs during a member's term, the governor shall appoint a person to...
• Texas Section 152.006 - Grounds For Removal
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board that a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications...
• Texas Section 152.007 - Per Diem
  (a) Each board member is entitled to receive a per diem as set by legislative appropriation for each day that the member engages in the...
• Texas Section 152.008 - Officers
  Not later than December after each regular session of the legislature, the governor shall appoint from the members of the board a president, to serve...
• Texas Section 152.009 - Meetings; Quorum Requirements
  (a) The board shall conduct regular meetings at least four times a year at the times and places the board considers most convenient for applicants...

SUBCHAPTER B EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND OTHER PERSONNEL

• Texas Section 152.010 - Training; Guidelines
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the board may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
• Texas Section 152.051 - Executive Director
  (a) The board shall appoint an executive director. The executive director serves as the chief executive and administrative officer of the board. (b) The executive...
• Texas Section 152.052 - Executive Director Powers And Duties
  The executive director shall administer and enforce this subtitle under the supervision and at the direction of the board. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388,...
• Texas Section 152.054 - Chief Operating Officer; Medical Director
  (a) The executive director may employ a chief operating officer to: (1) administer, implement, and monitor systems and necessary measures to promote the quality and...
• Texas Section 152.055 - Personnel
  (a) The board shall employ, compensate, and provide persons as determined necessary by the board to administer this subtitle, including administrators, clerks, employees, consultants, and...
• Texas Section 152.056 - Division Of Responsibilities
  The board shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policy-making responsibilities of the board and the management responsibilities of the executive director and...
• Texas Section 152.057 - Qualifications And Standards Of Conduct Information
  The board shall provide, as often as necessary, to its members and employees information regarding their: (1) qualifications for office or employment under this subtitle;...
• Texas Section 152.058 - Career Ladder; Annual Performance Evaluations
  (a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall develop an intra-agency career ladder program. The program must require intra-agency posting of all nonentry-level...
• Texas Section 152.059 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy; Report
  (a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to assure implementation of an equal employment opportunity...

Last modified: September 28, 2016