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2012 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Licensing

McWaters (Chairman), Lucas, Northam, Carrico, Garrett

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: February 16, 2012
Time and Place: 45 Minutes After Adjournment - 3rd Floor East

H.B. 346

Patron: O'Bannon

Practice of nurse practitioners; patient care teams.  Amends provisions governing the practice of nurse practitioners. The bill provides that nurse practitioners shall only practice as part of a patient care team and shall maintain appropriate collaboration and consultation, as evidenced in a written or electronic practice agreement, with at least one patient care team physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth. The bill also establishes requirements for written or electronic practice agreements for nurse practitioners, provides that physicians practicing as part of a patient care team may require nurse practitioners practicing as part of that patient care team to be covered by professional malpractice insurance, and amends requirements related to the prescriptive authority of nurse practitioners practicing as part of a patient care team.

H.B. 543

Patron: Robinson

Licensed massage therapists. Requires that massage therapists be licensed, rather than certified, by the Board of Nursing, includes "bodywork" in the definition of "massage therapy," and identifies activities that do not constitute massage therapy and bodywork. The bill also allows the Board of Nursing to issue a provisional license valid until July 1, 2014, to any individual who meets the current requirements for certification as a massage therapist, and requires the Board of Nursing to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act with 280 days.