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2021 SESSION
HB 2039 Physician assistant; eliminates certain requirement for practice.
Introduced by: Sam Rasoul | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Practice as a physician assistant. Allows a physician assistant to enter into a practice agreement with more than one patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist and provides that a patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist shall not be liable for the actions or inactions of a physician assistant for whom the patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist provides collaboration and consultation. The bill also makes clear that a student physician assistant shall not be required to be licensed in order to engage in acts that otherwise constitute practice as a physician assistant, provided that the student physician assistant is enrolled in an accredited physician assistant education program.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102733D pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21102733D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102733D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/15/21 House: Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions
- 01/21/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/21 House: Read first time
- 01/29/21 House: Read second time
- 01/29/21 House: Passed by temporarily
- 01/29/21 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/29/21 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2039E
- 01/29/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21102733D-E
- 02/01/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)