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HB 1695 Health regulatory boards; powers and duties, health care practitioners with mental illness.

Introduced by: Joseph R. Yost | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; health care practitioners with mental illness. Prohibits health regulatory boards from revoking, suspending, restricting, or refusing to issue or renew a registration, certificate, license, or multistate licensure privilege or otherwise discipline a health care practitioner, including a holder of a multistate licensure privileged to practice nursing, solely on the grounds that the health care practitioner has mental illness absent evidence indicating that the health care practitioner's mental illness renders the health care practitioner unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients.


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