TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
Known as the Medical Practice Act
The act spans §§ 151–172 (375 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. Texas Medical Board (2010)
Most recently applied in Teladoc, Inc. v. Texas Medical Board and Nancy Leshikar, in Her Official Capacity as General Counsel of the Texas Medical Board (December 2014)
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.
(a) The Texas Medical Board is an agency of the executive branch of state government with the power to regulate the practice of medicine.
(b) A reference in any other law to the former Texas State Board of Medical Examiners means the Texas Medical Board.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.