By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 627          (In the Senate - Filed December 16, 2024; February 3, 2025,   read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;   March 4, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,   Nays 0; March 4, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the licensing and regulation of dietitians.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 701.151(b), Occupations Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (b)  The commission or the department, as appropriate,   shall:                (1)  adopt and publish a code of ethics;                (2)  establish the qualifications [and fitness] of   applicants for licenses, including renewed and reciprocal   licenses; and                (3)  request and receive any necessary assistance from   state educational institutions or other state agencies.          SECTION 2.  Section 701.251(b), Occupations Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (b)  Unless the person holds an appropriate license issued   under this chapter, a person may not:                (1)  use the title or represent or imply that the person   has the title "licensed dietitian" [or "provisional licensed   dietitian"] or use the letters "LD" [or "PLD"]; or                (2)  use a facsimile of that title [those titles] to   indicate or imply that the person is a licensed dietitian [or   provisional licensed dietitian].          SECTION 3.  Section 701.304, Occupations Code, is amended to   read as follows:          Sec. 701.304.  GROUNDS FOR REFUSING RENEWAL.  The commission   or department may refuse to renew the license of a person who fails   to pay an administrative penalty imposed against the person under   Subchapter F, Chapter 51 [K], unless enforcement of the penalty is   stayed or a court has ordered that the administrative penalty is not   owed.          SECTION 4.  The following provisions of the Occupations Code   are repealed:                (1)  Section 701.002(9);                (2)  Section 701.1511; and                (3)  Section 701.403.          SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *