Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Occupations Code § 351.407: GOVERNMENTAL DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.

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OCCUPATIONS CODE
TITLE 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS
SUBTITLE F. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO EYES AND VISION
CHAPTER 351. OPTOMETRISTS AND THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS
SUBCHAPTER I. PROHIBITED PRACTICES IN GENERAL

(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.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

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