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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 23, 2014
Time and Place: 3 p.m. / 3rd Floor East

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. 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.

S.B. 638

Patron: Smith

Prescription Monitoring Program; reporting requirements. Requires dispensers to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program within three days of dispensing a covered substance.