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2024 SESSION

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HB 349 Advanced registered medication aides; aides who administer drugs in certified nursing facilities.

Introduced by: Rozia A. Henson, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Advanced registered medication aides; certified nursing facilities; work group; report. Requires advanced registered medication aides who administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in a certified nursing facility licensed by the Department of Health to register with the Board of Nursing. Under the bill, an advanced registered medication aide who is registered to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility shall also be eligible to administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in an assisted living facility. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. The bill also requires the Board of Nursing to convene a work group to develop recommendations to enable such medication aides to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility and to report such recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health and Human Services by November 1, 2024. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to authorize such medication aides to administer prescription drugs to residents in certified nursing facilities. The bill directs the Board of Nursing to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill to be effective as of July 1, 2025.

FULL TEXT

• 01/05/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100783D  pdf | impact statement
• 01/26/24  House: Printed as engrossed 24100783D-E  pdf | impact statement
• 02/29/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB349ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/02/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
• House amendments adopted

HISTORY

• 01/05/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100783D
• 01/05/24  House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
• 01/17/24  House: Assigned sub: Health Professions
• 01/18/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 01/23/24  House: Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N)
• 01/25/24  House: Read first time
• 01/26/24  House: Read second time
• 01/26/24  House: Committee amendments agreed to
• 01/26/24  House: Engrossed by House as amended HB349E
• 01/26/24  House: Printed as engrossed 24100783D-E
• 01/29/24  House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N)
• 01/29/24  House: VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
• 01/30/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/30/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/15/24  Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions
• 02/22/24  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
• 02/23/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/26/24  Senate: Read third time
• 02/26/24  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/24  House: Enrolled
• 02/29/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB349ER)
• 02/29/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/03/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 04/02/24  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 284 (effective - 7/1/25)
• 04/02/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284)