Protocol Desk · 2026-W36
No protocol rule moved this week: Texas still calls it a Prescriptive Authority Agreement
Nothing in our research changed, and this week's federal notices touch lawn mowers and transfer agents, not standing orders. So we spend the issue on the instrument Texas practices actually sign, and on what we could not check.
On the docket
What the public record carried this week, and what it did not.
Nothing in this week's federal notices touches delegation, standing orders or aesthetic practice
The Federal Register items retrieved for the week of 2026-09-05 cover antidumping sunset review on walk-behind lawn mowers, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license amendment, SEC transfer agent rules, an FCC information collection, Farm Service Agency loan delivery, IRS private school nondiscrimination, MSPB penalty standards, a USDA Privacy Act matching program, refuge hunting regulations, and a less-than-fair-value investigation on perfluoroalkoxy alkane. None of them changes what a medical director signs or what an RN may do under a written protocol.
Sources: Federal Register: Certain Walk-Behind Lawn Mowers and Parts Thereof From the People's Republic of , Federal Register: Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License Involving Proposed No Si, Federal Register: Transfer Agent Rules, Federal Register: Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to Office of Mana, Federal Register: Driving Efficiency in Farm Loan Delivery, Federal Register: Racial Nondiscrimination in Private Schools, Federal Register: Determining the Appropriate Penalty for Federal Employees Charged With Misconduc, Federal Register: Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, Federal Register: National Wildlife Refuge System; 2026-2027 Station-Specific Hunting and Sport Fi, Federal Register: Perfluoroalkoxy Alkane From India: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigat
Practice type spotlight
Term of the week: Prescriptive Authority Agreement. Two state and clinician pages use a name in the prescriptive authority agreement family. Each state's exact wording is on its page.
Texas calls it: Prescriptive Authority Agreement (PAA)
For nurse practitioners, Texas names the instrument a Prescriptive Authority Agreement. The state page carries the exact wording your delegating physician and NP put their names to.
Texas calls it: Prescriptive Authority Agreement
The same family of name applies to physician assistants in Texas. Compare the two pages before you reuse one practice's paperwork for the other role.
Where the term sits next to the other instruments
A prescriptive authority agreement is not the same document as a written protocol or a standing order, and a medical spa or IV clinic often maintains more than one. Our reference page lays out the term on its own.
Every outside claim carries the source it was read from this week. Our own research dates are on each state page. Published 2026-09-05.