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2008 SESSION
Quayle (Chairman), Lucas, Martin, Edwards, Northam
Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: January 17, 2008
Time and Place: Thursday, 1/2 hr. after adjournment, 3rd Fl East Conf. Rm, GAB
S.B. 134 Occupational therapy assistants; licensing and regulation.
Patron: Houck
Occupational therapy assistants; licensing and regulation. Requires occupational therapy assistants to be licensed by the Board of Medicine. However, a person who has graduated from a duly accredited occupational therapy assistant education program may practice with the title "Occupational Therapy Assistant, License Applicant" or "O.T.A., Applicant" until he has taken and received the results of any examination required by the Board or until six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner.
S.B. 151 Dental assistants; Board of Dentistry to regulate practice.
Patron: Lucas
Practice of dental assistants. Requires the Board of Dentistry to regulate the practice of dental assistants.
S.B. 204 Freestanding birth centers; licensing.
Patron: Quayle
Freestanding birth centers; licensing. Requires freestanding birth centers to be licensed and regulated by the Department of Health.
S.B. 381 Mental health and substance abuse treatment providers; background checks.
Patron: Martin
Mental health and substance abuse treatment providers; background checks. Allows community services boards and providers licensed by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to hire as a direct care employee in adult substance abuse or mental health treatment programs someone with certain misdemeanor assault and battery convictions as long as such offences were substantially related to substance abuse or mental illness and the applicant has been rehabilitated.
S.B. 495 Board of Medicine; information to be made public.
Patron: Northam
Board of Medicine; information to be made public. Exempts anyone holding an inactive, temporary, limited, or volunteer license to practice medicine from the requirement to make certain information available to the Board of Medicine.