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2023 SESSION
SB 970 Mental health conditions & impairment; health regulatory board w/in DHP to amend its applications.
Introduced by: T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Department of Health Professions; applications for licensure, certification, and registration; mental health conditions and impairment; emergency. Directs each health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions to amend its licensure, certification, and registration applications to remove any existing questions pertaining to mental health conditions and impairment and to include the following questions: (i) Do you have any reason to believe that you would pose a risk to the safety or well-being of your patients or clients? and (ii) Are you able to perform the essential functions of a practitioner in your area of practice with or without reasonable accommodation? The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 1573.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/11/23 23102876D pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB970ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/11/23 23102876D
- 01/06/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/11/23 Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/11/23 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 01/17/23 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 01/26/23 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/31/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/23 House: Read first time
- 02/09/23 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/14/23 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 House: Read second time
- 02/17/23 House: Read third time
- 02/17/23 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/17/23 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/17/23 House: Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/23 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/23/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB970ER)
- 02/23/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/16/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 3/16/23)
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019)