Texas Occupations Code Title 3, Chapter 156 - Registration Of Physicians

SUBCHAPTER A RENEWAL AND REGISTRATION

• Texas Section 156.001 - Registration Requirements And Procedures
  (a) Each person licensed to practice medicine in this state must register with the board every two years. The initial registration permit shall be issued...
• Texas Section 156.002 - Exemption For Certain Physicians
  (a) The board by rule may exempt a retired physician from the registration permit fee requirement. (b) A physician licensed by the board whose only...
• Texas Section 156.003 - Staggered Renewal System
  (a) The board by rule may adopt a system under which registration permits expire on various dates during the two-year registration period. (b) For the...
• Texas Section 156.0035 - Renewal Of Controlled Substance Registration
  (a) The board shall accept the renewal application and fee submitted by a physician under Section 481.0645, Health and Safety Code, for a registration under...
• Texas Section 156.004 - Notice Of Expiration
  (a) At least 60 days before the date on which a physician's registration permit expires, the board shall send to each physician at the physician's...
• Texas Section 156.005 - Renewal Of Certain Registration Permits
  (a) If a person's registration permit has been expired for 90 days or less, the person may renew the permit by submitting to the board...
• Texas Section 156.006 - Emergency Contact Information
  (a) Each license holder shall submit to the board telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses, if available and as appropriate, that the board may...
• Texas Section 156.007 - Issuance Of Registration Permit
  (a) On receipt of a registration renewal application and all required fees, the board, after ascertaining from the records of the board or from other...
• Texas Section 156.008 - Practicing Medicine Without Registration Prohibited
  (a) Practicing medicine after the expiration of the 30-day grace period under Section 156.004 following expiration of a registration permit that has not been renewed...

SUBCHAPTER B CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Texas Section 156.009 - Inactive Status
  The board may adopt rules and set reasonable fees relating to placing license holders on inactive status. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 156.051 - Reporting Program; Rules; Exemption
  (a) The board by rule shall adopt, monitor, and enforce a reporting program for the continuing medical education of license holders. The board shall adopt...
• Texas Section 156.052 - Presumption Of Compliance For Certain License Holders
  A license holder is presumed to be in compliance with the requirements of this subchapter if, during the 36 months preceding the date of the...
• Texas Section 156.053 - Temporary Exemption
  (a) The board may temporarily exempt a license holder from the continuing medical education requirement on the basis of: (1) catastrophic illness; (2) military service...
• Texas Section 156.054 - Authority Of Board To Require Additional Hours
  This subchapter does not prevent the board from taking disciplinary action with respect to a license holder or license applicant by requiring additional hours of...
• Texas Section 156.055 - Continuing Education In Pain Treatment
  A physician licensed under this subtitle who submits an application for renewal of a license that designates a direct patient care practice and whose practice...
• Texas Section 156.056 - Certain Volunteer Services
  (a) In this section, "practice serving a medically underserved population" has the meaning assigned by Section 157.051. (b) The board by rule shall permit a...
• Texas Section 156.057 - Continuing Education In Forensic Evidence Collection
  (a) A physician licensed under this subtitle who submits an application for renewal of a license to practice medicine and whose practice includes treating patients...
• Texas Section 156.059 - Continuing Education In Tick-borne Diseases
  (a) A physician licensed under this subtitle who submits an application for renewal of a license to practice medicine and whose practice includes the treatment...

Last modified: September 28, 2016