A recommendation from the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission would end license requirements for 19 healthcare professions, including respiratory therapy, X-ray technicians and medical physicists, according to a KVUE report.
The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission is tasked with evaluating state agencies and making changes to their missions or operations as needed, according to the report. In the recommendation, the commission says the agency that provides licenses to those professionals is underfunded and understaffed.
Opponents of the recommendation say deregulating these medical professions would possibly allow incompetent workers or workers who lost their license in other states to practice in Texas without undergoing screening.
The commission is taking public comment on the recommendation Tuesday and Wednesday in Austin, according to KVUE. A decision will be announced in August.
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