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TX HB3889
Bill
Status
3/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth Campos
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AI Summary
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Requires advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants to have a prescriptive authority agreement with a supervising physician before prescribing or ordering controlled substances or dangerous drugs/devices
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Restricts APRNs and physician assistants to prescribing controlled substances or dangerous drugs/devices only for patients with whom the delegating physician has an established physician-patient relationship
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Maintains existing authority for physicians to delegate prescribing of non-controlled, non-dangerous drugs/devices to APRNs and physician assistants through prescriptive authority agreements
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Takes effect September 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Relating to the prescribing or ordering of a controlled substance or dangerous drug or device by an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant under a prescriptive authority agreement.
Occupational Regulation
Last Action
Referred to Public Health
3/27/2025