| (a) "License" means a license, certificate, registration,
permit, or other authorization issued by the Board.
(b) Effect of Child Support Payment Default on Licensure
Status
(1) The licensure status of a licensee is subject to
the course of action established by the Texas Family Code, §232.011.
(2) On receipt of a final order suspending a license
issued by the Board to an individual, the Board shall immediately
record the suspension of the licensee in the Board's records.
(3) The Board shall implement the terms of the final
order suspending license without additional review or hearing. The
Board may provide notice as appropriate to the license holder.
(4) The Board may not modify, remand, reverse, vacate,
or stay an order suspending license and may not review, vacate, or
reconsider the terms of a final order suspending license.
(5) An individual who is the subject of a final order
suspending license is not entitled to a refund for any fee or paid
to the Board.
(6) An individual who continues to engage in the practice
of dentistry or any licensed activity after the implementation of
the order suspending license by the Board is liable for the same civil
and criminal penalties provided for engaging in the licensed activity
without a license or while a license is suspended that apply to any
other license holder of the Board.
(7) The Board is exempt from liability to a license
holder for any act authorized under Family Code, Chapter 232 performed
by the Board.
(8) Except as provided by Family Code, Chapter 232,
an order suspending license or dismissing a petition for the suspension
of a license does not affect the power of the Board to grant, deny,
suspend, revoke, terminate, or renew a license otherwise.
(9) An order issued under this chapter to suspend a
license applies to each license issued by the licensing authority
subject to the order for which the obligor is eligible. The licensing
authority may not issue or renew any other license for the obligor
until an order vacating or staying an order suspending license is
rendered.
(c) Effect of Child Support Payment Default on Licensure
Application and Renewal
(1) Initial applications and applications for renewal
of licenses issued by the board are subject to the course of action
established by the Texas Family Code, §232.0135.
(2) Upon notice from another agency that an obligor
has failed to pay child support for six months or more, the Board
shall refuse to grant initial licensure or renewal of an existing
license to an obligor until the Board is notified by the other agency
that the obligor has:
(A) paid all child support arrearages;
(B) made an immediate payment of not less than $200
toward child support arrearages owed and established with the other
agency a satisfactory repayment schedule for the remainder or is in
compliance with a court order for payment of the arrearages;
(C) been granted an exemption from this subsection
as part of a court-supervised plan to improve the obligor's earnings
and child support payments; or
(D) successfully contested the denial before the child
support agency in accordance with Texas Family Code, §232.0135(d).
(d) The Board may charge a fee to a licensee who is
the subject of an order suspending license or of an action of another
agency under Texas Family Code, §232.0135 to deny issuance or
renewal of license in an amount sufficient to recover the administrative
costs incurred by the Board.
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