Opinion No.

Honorable Chet Brooks Chairman Senate Committee on Human Resources Archives Building Austin, Texas 78711

Re: Delegation of medical acts by means of standing orders

Dear Senator Brooks:

You first ask:

In the absence of statutory language permitting delegation of medical acts, does the Board of Medical Examiners have the authority to promulgate rules relating to the delegation of medical acts to non-physicians?

Article 4512a, V.T.C.S., which was enacted by the sixty-sixth legislature, requires the Board of Medical Examiners to adopt standards regulating the extent to which a physician's…