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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health Subcommittee Health Professions

McWaters (Chairman), Lucas, Carrico, Garrett

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: January 16, 2014
Time and Place: 45 Min. after Adj. - 3rd Fl. East

S.B. 207

Patron: McWaters

Licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction; Prescription Monitoring Program. Requires licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction through the use of methadone or other opioid replacements to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program.

S.B. 328

Patron: Barker

Surgical technologists and surgical assistants. Requires certification for surgical technologists and licensure for surgical assistants and provides requirements for such certification and licensure. The bill creates the Advisory Board on Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting to assist the Board of Medicine in the regulation of surgical technologists and surgical assistants.

S.B. 463

Patron: Barker

Health regulatory boards; reinstatement of licensure. Requires that an applicant for reinstatement of a license that has been revoked due to certain acts of unprofessional conduct show by clear and convincing evidence that he is safe and competent to practice.

S.B. 526

Patron: Carrico

Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure method. Specifies that when the Director, in his discretion, discloses information that is in the possession of the program concerning a recipient who is over the age of 18 to that recipient, the information shall be mailed to a street or mailing address indicated on the recipient request form.

S.B. 536

Patron: Martin

Health care provider-owned distributorships. Prohibits physicians and hospitals from using, referring, recommending, ordering, or arranging for the acquisition of certain medical devices in the treatment of patients if the physician or hospital has an ownership interest in the entity that manufactures, distributes, or supplies the medical device.