Texas Health and Safety Code
§ 37.004 — QUALIFICATIONS OF PERSONS PROVIDING SCREENING
HS § 37.004Title 2. HEALTH · Part B. HEALTH PROGRAMS · Ch. 37. ABNORMAL SPINAL CURVATURE IN CHILDREN
Statute text
View on source(a)The department may train persons who administer the spinal screening procedure and may approve training programs.
(b)A person who provides screening services authorized by this chapter must be:
(1)appropriately licensed or certified as a health practitioner; or
(2)certified as having completed an approved training program in screening for abnormal spinal curvature.
(c)A person who provides a professional examination authorized by this chapter for abnormal spinal curvature must be appropriately licensed or certified as a health practitioner.
(d)It is the intent of the legislature that the department provide certification training for nonhealth practitioners through Texas Education Agency regional education service centers.
Legislative history
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 6.37, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.