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2000 SESSION
HB 979 Health professions; physician assistants.
Introduced by: S. Chris Jones | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health professions; physician assistants. Authorizes physicians and podiatrists to delegate to physician assistants initial and ongoing evaluation and treatment of patients in hospitals, including emergency departments. In hospitals, physician assistants must report any acute or significant findings or changes in patients' clinical status to the supervising physician as soon as circumstances require, and record these findings in appropriate institutional records. The physician assistant must transfer to a supervising physician the direction of care of any patient in an emergency department who has a life-threatening injury or illness. The supervising physician must review, prior to the patient's discharge, the services rendered by the physician assistant in an emergency department. The supervising physician must be present in the facility when a physician assistant is practicing in an emergency department. The physician responsible for the care of the patient must sign a protocol under Board regulations agreeing to act as a supervising physician for the assistant practicing in a hospital.
FULL TEXT
- 01/24/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 004846796 pdf
- 02/17/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 003756796-S1 pdf
- 02/28/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB979ER) pdf
- 04/18/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/24/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 004846796
- 01/24/00 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/26/00 House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 1
- 02/01/00 House: Reported from H. W. I. (20-Y 2-N)
- 02/02/00 House: Read first time
- 02/03/00 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/00 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/00 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (99-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/00 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/07/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/17/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 003756796-S1
- 02/17/00 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/00 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/00 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/00 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/21/00 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 003756796-S1
- 02/21/00 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 003756796-S1
- 02/21/00 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/00 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/00 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (93-Y 4-N)
- 02/23/00 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (93-Y 4-N)
- 02/28/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB979ER)
- 03/07/00 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/00 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/00 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/05/00 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 497 (effective 7/1/00)
- 04/18/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497)