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SB 716 Physician assistants; provisions for practicing in hospital emergency departments.
Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Physician assistants practicing in hospital emergency departments. Authorizes physician assistants who are not employed to practice in emergency departments of hospitals to so practice, within the scope of their practice, while under continuous physician supervision, regardless of whether the supervising physician is physically present in the facility. The supervising physician must retain exclusive supervisory control of and responsibility for the assistant and be available at all times for consultation with both the assistant and the emergency department physician. The assistant must communicate the proposed disposition plan prior to the patient's discharge to both his supervising physician and the emergency department physician.
FULL TEXT
- 12/27/04 Senate: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051803728 pdf | impact statement
- 01/20/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 050188728-S1 pdf
- 03/02/05 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB716ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/01/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/27/04 Senate: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051803728
- 12/27/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/13/05 Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Health Care
- 01/20/05 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 050188728-S1
- 01/21/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/05 Senate: Read second time
- 01/24/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/24/05 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 050188728-S1
- 01/24/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB716S1
- 01/25/05 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/05 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/08/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/05 House: Read first time
- 02/08/05 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/15/05 House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/05 House: Read second time
- 02/17/05 House: Read third time
- 02/17/05 House: Passed House (95-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/17/05 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 03/02/05 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB716ER)
- 03/02/05 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/03/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/23/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (effective 7/1/05)
- 04/01/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)