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2023 SESSION
HB 1573 Mental health conditions & impairment; health regulatory board w/in DHP to amend its applications.
Introduced by: Wendell S. Walker | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (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 SB 970.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/11/23 23103067D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103067D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1573ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/11/23 23103067D
- 01/06/23 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/16/23 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/19/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/23 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/23 House: Read first time
- 01/27/23 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/30/23 House: Read second time
- 01/30/23 House: Amendments by Delegate Walker agreed to
- 01/30/23 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1573E
- 01/30/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103067D-E
- 01/31/23 House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/23 House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/01/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/09/23 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/23 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/16/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1573ER)
- 02/16/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/16/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: 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 18 (effective 3/16/23)
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018)