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2022 SESSION
HB 145 Physician assistants; practice.
Introduced by: Christopher T. Head | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Practice of physician assistants. Removes the requirement that physician assistants appointed as medical examiners practice as part of a patient care team. For hospice program licensing, the bill adds physician assistants to the list of hospice personnel who may be part of a medically directed interdisciplinary team. The bill removes a reference to physician assistants in the definition of patient care team podiatrist. Finally, the bill permits physician assistants working in the field of orthopedics as part of a patient care team to utilize fluoroscopy for guidance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, provided other requirements are met.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101644D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/22 House: Printed as engrossed 22101644D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/02/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB145ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/07/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/07/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101644D
- 01/07/22 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/18/22 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/20/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/22 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/22 House: Read first time
- 01/28/22 House: Read second time
- 01/28/22 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/28/22 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB145E
- 01/28/22 House: Printed as engrossed 22101644D-E
- 01/31/22 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/22 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/01/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/16/22 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 02/18/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/24/22 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/22 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/22 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/22 House: Enrolled
- 03/02/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB145ER)
- 03/02/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/22 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 03/11/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/07/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/07/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151)