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HOUSE BILL NO. 1545 Offered January 19, 2024 A BILL to amend and reinstate § 54.1-2950. Requisite training and education achievements of assistants. ---------- Patron-- Williams ---------- Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54.1-2950 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 54.1-2950. Requisite training and educational achievements of assistants.

The Board shall establish a testing program to determine the training and educational achievements of the physician assistant or the Board may accept other evidence, such as experience or completion of an approved training program, in lieu of testing and shall establish this as a prerequisite for approval of the licensee's application.

Pending the outcome of the next examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, the Board may grant provisional licensure to graduates of physician assistants curricula that are approved by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant. Such provisional licensure shall be granted at the discretion of the Board. as established by § 54.1-2951.1 (Requirements for licensure and practice as a physician assistant; licensure by endorsement.) pending the applicants passage of the examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

The provisional licensure of an applicant who fails to pass the examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants shall be revoked.

An applicant may not be granted more than two temporary licenses and may not be licensed as a physician assistant until their passage of the examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

The time period for such temporary license shall not exceed six (6) months, at the end of which the physician assistant must have obtained full licensure or must withdraw the request and immediately cease to perform the health care tasks specific to physician assistant practice.