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Senate committee hears bill to broaden TXPHP renewal surcharge to all medical licensees
Summary
The Committee on Health & Human Services took up Senate Bill 2,480 on the funding mechanism for the Texas Physician Health Program, or TXPHP, and left the bill pending after invited testimony.
The Committee on Health & Human Services took up Senate Bill 2,480 on the funding mechanism for the Texas Physician Health Program, or TXPHP, and left the bill pending after invited testimony.
Senator Campbell, the bill’s author, told the committee the bill fixes an unintended limitation in last session’s language that the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) had interpreted to allow surcharge collection only from physicians and physician assistants. “TXPHP, that stands for the Texas Physician Health Program,” Campbell said, and the measure “explicitly permit[s] the Texas Medical Board to collect license renewal surcharge fees from all Texas Medical…
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