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2025 Texas Statutes
Occupations Code
Title 3 - Health Professions
Subtitle C - Other Professions Performing Medical Procedures
Chapter 204 - Physician Assistants
Subchapter E. Practice by License Holder
Section 204.207. Assumption of Professional Liability
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TX Occ Code § 204.207 (2025)
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Sec. 204.207. ASSUMPTION OF PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY. (a) Each supervising physician retains legal responsibility for a physician assistant's patient care activities, including the provision of care and treatment to a patient in a health care facility.
(b) If a physician assistant is employed by an entity, including a health care facility, the entity shares the legal responsibility for the physician assistant's acts or omissions with the physician assistant's supervising physician.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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