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2000 SESSION
SB 683 Health professions; physician assistants.
Introduced by: J. Randy Forbes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health professions; physician assistants. Authorizes the delegation and supervision of initial and ongoing evaluation and treatment of hospital patients, including emergency department patients, to physician assistants when performed under the direction, supervision and control of an appropriate licensee. The physician assistants, when practicing in a hospital, must report acute or significant findings or changes in a patient's clinical status to the supervising physician as soon as circumstances require and record these findings in the records. A patient with a life-threatening injury or illness must be transferred to a supervising physician. The supervising physician must review, prior to the patient's discharge, the services rendered to the patient by a physician assistant in a hospital's emergency department. A physician assistant practicing in an emergency department must be under the supervision of a physician who is present within the facility. Physician assistants practicing in hospitals must have signed protocols with the physician responsible for the patient, pursuant to regulations of the Board of Medicine.
FULL TEXT
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004797424 pdf
- 02/14/00 Senate: Floor substitute printed 003753424-S1 (Forbes) pdf
- 03/15/00 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB683ER) pdf
- 04/17/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004797424
- 01/24/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/00 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/00 Senate: Floor substitute printed 003753424-S1 (Forbes)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/00 Senate: Substitute by Sen. Forbes agreed to 003753424-S1
- 02/14/00 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - fl. sub. 003753424-S1
- 02/14/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/16/00 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/00 House: Read first time
- 02/16/00 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/29/00 House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/00 House: Read second time
- 03/01/00 House: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 03/01/00 House: Rereferred to Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 03/02/00 House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/00 House: Read second time
- 03/06/00 House: Read third time
- 03/06/00 House: Passed House (Block Vote) (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/00 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/15/00 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB683ER)
- 03/16/00 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/16/00 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/17/00 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/05/00 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 467 (effective 7/1/00)
- 04/17/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467)