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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Barker (Chairman), Edwards, McWaters, Carrico

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 13, 2014
Time and Place: 3 p.m. / 3rd Floor East

H.B. 500

Patron: Yost

Practice of audiology; cerumen management. Adds limited cerumen management to the definition of the practice of audiology and requires the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology to promulgate regulations governing the practice of cerumen management, including requirements related to the training and qualifications of audiologists who perform cerumen management, within 280 days.

H.B. 540

Patron: Hope

Licensure of private behavioral health services providers. Clarifies provisions governing issuance of a provisional license to a private provider by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providing that a provisional license may be issued at any time when a provider is temporarily unable to comply with all licensing standards, and clarifies situations in which certain sanctions may be imposed upon a provider.

H.B. 874

Patron: Yost


Designation and reporting of drugs of concern. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to identify "drugs of concern" and requires prescribers to report prescription drugs of concern to the Prescription Monitoring Program.

 

H.B. 891

Patron: Peace

Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; special conference committees. Provides that special conference committees may consider applications for a license, certificate, registration, permit or issuance of a multistate licensure privilege and may grant or deny the application or issue a restricted license, certification, registration, permit, or multistate licensure privilege. The bill also provides that special conference committees may hear cases in which a holder of a permit issued by a health regulatory board is reported to be the subject of disciplinary action.

H.B. 1032

Patron: Orrock

Board of Pharmacy; automatic review of certain case decisions. Provides that, in cases in which a monetary fine may be imposed for a violation of the Drug Control Act relating to the practice of pharmacy and the pharmacy subject to the fine is affiliated with a free clinic that receives state or local funds, the Board of Pharmacy shall ascertain the factual basis of the case through informal conference or consultation proceedings, unless the named party and the Board agree to resolve the matter through a consent order or the named party consents to waive such conference or proceeding to go directly to a formal hearing.