The Texas State Board of Medical Examiners adopts an amendment to §187.2 and §187.31, the repeal of §§187.26-187.28 and new §187.26 and §187.27, concerning Procedural Rules, without changes to the proposed text as published in the April 23, 2004, issue of the Texas Register (29 TexReg 3904) and will not be republished.

The amendments, repeals and new rules regard default judgments by the Board in SOAH administrative proceedings.

No comments were received regarding adoption of the rules.

The amendment is adopted under the authority of the Occupations Code Annotated, §153.001, which provides the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners to adopt rules and bylaws as necessary to: govern its own proceedings; perform its duties; regulate the practice of medicine in this state; and enforce this subtitle.