Sec. 487.602.  RURAL PHYSICIAN RELIEF PROGRAM.  Subject to available funding, the  department shall create a program to provide affordable relief services to rural physicians practicing in the fields of general family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics to facilitate the ability of those physicians to take time away from their practice.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 609, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by: 
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (H.B. 1918), Sec. 76, eff. September 1, 2009.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 148 (H.B. 1493), Sec. 37, eff. September 1, 2013.