SB912

SB912 requires covered health-profession licensing agencies to verify continuing-education compliance before renewing a license and to establish electronic tracking systems. A system must be usable by and accessible to practitioners, licensing staff and approved continuing-education providers. A verification generated by the system satisfies the renewal-verification requirement and must be used in agency audits. Existing penalties for failure to meet continuing-education requirements remain available; the bill does not itself prescribe a new number of education hours. New sections 112.101–.104 and .106.

The new rules cover licensing entities issuing health-care practitioner licenses under Occupations Code Title 3, except Subtitle L. The House analysis identifies that exception as crematory services, funeral directing and embalming. “License” includes certificates, registrations and permits. The act moves the old limited list of covered professions into the separate subchapter on retired practitioners doing voluntary charity care; that old list is not the scope of the new tracking requirement. Sections 1–2; House scope analysis; Existing charity-care provision.

The general deadline to establish a system is September 1, 2026. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation instead has until September 1, 2028 both to establish its system and to comply with the new verification requirements. That later deadline is not a blanket extension for all licensing boards. The act became law without the governor’s signature on June 20, 2025 and took effect September 1, 2025. This describes statutory requirements, not a finding that a particular agency has already implemented its system. Sections 3 and 5; Enactment history.

The system may collect and use only information directly related to continuing-education compliance, including license name, number, issue/expiration dates and information disclosed in a public license-verification request, plus other information the agency designates by rule as necessary for a required system function. Cloud-based systems must be certified under the state risk and authorization management program, and every system must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The data rule is not permission to collect unrelated personal information. Section 112.105.

A new system may not require a licensing-entity expenditure. But an agency that already had a qualifying provider agreement on September 1, 2025 may maintain that agreement and its implementation costs. The statute does not say that access must be free to practitioners or education providers. Section 112.104(b) and existing-agreement exception in section 4.