The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas Medical Board; State level · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Tex. Occ. Code § 153.001; Tex. Gov't Code § 2001.034
- Issued
- 2020-07-01 July 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-05 at 12:00 a.m. (read as 2020-07-05)
- End
- 2020-09-02 at 11:59 p.m., or the end of the Governor's Mar. 13, 2020 disaster declaration, whichever is shorter (read as 2020-09-02)
- In force
- July 5, 2020 to Sept. 2, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- Texas physicians prescribing by telemedicine
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth prescribing (rule in force on July 1, 2020, the first day of 2020Q3)
- PR prescribing
- CB patients
- Collection
- State health licensing boards AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS
Operative words
The Board previously adopted emergency amendments to Title 22, Chapter 174.5, which are set to expire July 4, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. The new amendments, effective July 5, 2020 at 12:00 a.m., leave the previous emergency rule unchanged, with the exception of the rule's expiration date. The emergency rule will remain in place until September 2, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. or for the duration of the time period that the Governor's disaster declaration of March 13, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is in effect, whichever is shorter, pursuant to Section 2001.034 of the Texas Government Code.
Enforcement
22 TAC ch. 174; Tex. Occ. Code § 164.052
Notes
Shows the Board's emergency telemedicine-prescribing rule in force through the summer of 2020