- (a) Except as provided by §114.23, an applicant must pass a competency examination to qualify for a practitioner license.
- (b) Examinations shall be offered in prosthetics or orthotics.
(c) To take the examination, the applicant must have been:
- (1) issued a student registration; or
- (2) approved by the department.
- (d) Approved applicants shall have no more than two years from the date of approval to pass the required examination(s).
(e) Applications for examination.
- (1) The department shall notify an applicant whose license application has been approved that the applicant is eligible for the examination.
- (2) The department or its designee shall forward an examination registration form to the approved applicants at least thirty (30) days before a scheduled examination. An applicant who wishes to take a scheduled examination must complete the registration form and return it to the department or its designee by the established deadline.
- (f) Locations. Examinations administered by the department or its designee will be held at locations to be announced by the department or its designee.
- (g) Frequency. The examinations shall be administered at least once each year.
- (h) Grading. The department shall establish cut scores and shall grade examinations administered by the department or its designee.
(i) Results.
- (1) If the examination is graded or reviewed by a national or state testing service, the department shall notify the examinees of the examination results within fourteen (14) days of the date the department receives the results from the testing service.
- (2) If examination results will be delayed for more than ninety (90) days after the examination, the department shall notify the applicants of the reason for the delay before the ninetieth day.
- (j) Examination failure. Upon written request, the department shall furnish an applicant who fails an examination an analysis of performance.
Source Note:The provisions of this §114.22 adopted to be effective October 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 4467.