Texas Occupations Code
§ 351.407 — GOVERNMENTAL DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED
OC § 351.407Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part F. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO EYES AND VISION · Ch. 351. OPTOMETRISTS AND THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS · Art. I. PROHIBITED PRACTICES IN GENERAL
Statute text
View on source(a)A program supported by the state or by a political subdivision of the state may not discriminate against a health care practitioner because the practitioner is an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist.
(b)A law or policy of the state or of a political subdivision of the state that requires or encourages a person to obtain vision care or medical eye care that is within the scope of practice of an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may not discriminate against a health care practitioner because the practitioner is an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist.
Legislative history
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.