LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS
Known as the Medical Practice Act
The act spans §§ 151–172 (375 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Stephan v. Baylor Medical Center at Garland (2000)
Most recently applied in Planned Parenthood of Grt TX v. Courtney Ph (November 2020)
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The legislature finds that:
(1) the practice of medicine is a privilege and not a natural right of individuals and as a matter of public policy it is necessary to protect the public interest through enactment of this subtitle to regulate the granting of that privilege and its subsequent use and control; and
(2) the board should remain the primary means of licensing, regulating, and disciplining physicians.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.