CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR ADDITIONAL HARM
Known as the Medical Practice Act
The act spans §§ 151–172 (375 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman (2020)
Most recently applied in Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman (October 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.
(a) A person commits an offense if the person practices medicine without a license or permit and causes another person:
(1) physical or psychological harm; or
(2) financial harm.
(b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a felony of the third degree.
(c) An offense under Subsection (a)(2) is a state jail felony.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.