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Texas Occupations Code § 165.154

False Statement; Offense

Penalties · Criminal Penalties

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly makes a false statement:

(1) in the person's application for a license; or

(2) under oath to obtain a license or to secure the registration of a license to practice medicine.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.

Official text of the Texas Occupations Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 827 (H.B. 1998), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2023.