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2001 SESSION
HB 1694 Health professions; medical assistants.
Introduced by: Watkins M. Abbitt, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Health professions; medical assistants. Revises the authority of licensed or certified practitioners of the healing arts to delegate to supervised employees those nondiscretionary activities and functions that do not require the exercise of professional judgment for their performance and are usually or customarily delegated to other persons by practitioners of the healing arts, if the relevant practitioner of the healing arts is authorized to perform the delegated duties and assumes responsibility for such activities or functions. This bill removes the requirement that the unregulated person be employed by a professional licensed or certified by the Board of Medicine; the requirement that the unregulated person be supervised by the responsible licensed or certified professional remains. This bill is identical to SB 849.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Health professions; medical assistants. Removes requirement that medical personnel who are supervised by a professional licensed by the Board of Medicine do not have to be in his actual employ in order to provide nondiscretionary functions as authorized by him.