Texas Occupations Code - OCC § 204.304. Conduct Indicating Lack of Fitness

(1) habitually uses drugs or intoxicating liquors to the extent that, in the board's opinion, the person cannot safely perform as a physician assistant;

(2) has been adjudicated as mentally incompetent;

(3) has a mental or physical condition that renders the person unable to safely perform as a physician assistant;

(4) has committed an act of moral turpitude;

(5) has failed to practice as a physician assistant in an acceptable manner consistent with public health and welfare;

(6) has had the person's license to practice as a physician assistant suspended, revoked, or restricted;

(7) has had other disciplinary action taken by another state or by the uniformed services of the United States regarding practice as a physician assistant;

(8) prescribes, dispenses, or administers a drug or treatment that is nontherapeutic in nature or nontherapeutic in the manner the drug or treatment is prescribed, dispensed, or administered;

(9) is removed or suspended from, or has had disciplinary action taken by the person's peers in, any professional association or society, or is being disciplined by a licensed hospital or medical staff of a hospital, including removal, suspension, limitation of privileges, or other disciplinary action, if the reason for the discipline, in the board's opinion, is unprofessional conduct or professional incompetence likely to harm the public;

(10) has repeated or recurring meritorious health care liability claims that, in the board's opinion, are evidence of professional incompetence likely to harm the public;  or

(11) sexually abuses or exploits another person through the license holder's practice as a physician assistant.