1999 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 674

CHAPTER NUMBER: 655 File Code: Health Occupations
Sponsored By:
Delegates Redmer, Ports, Klausmeier, Stull, Weir, Frush, Petzold, Owings, Dewberry, Mitchell, D. Davis, Malone, Dembrow, Fulton, and Hubbard
Entitled:
Patient Prescription Access - Limited Physician Delegation to Physician Assistants

Synopsis:

Repealing specified provisions that require a physician assistant to obtain an approved job description from the Board of Physician Quality Assurance in order to perform specified delegated medical acts; substituting provisions that authorize a physician to delegate specified medical acts to a physician assistant under a delegation agreement that has been approved by the Board; authorizing a physician to delegate authority to an assistant to write medication orders under an approved delegation agreement; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/11
First Reading Environmental Matters
2/24
Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
3/26

Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/27
Motion vote previous question (Delegate Snodgrass) Adopted
Third Reading Passed (115-20)
4/7
House Concur - Senate Amendments
Third Reading Passed (123-10)
Passed Enrolled
5/27
Signed by the Governor Chapter 655
Senate Action
3/29
First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
3/31
Hearing 4/7 at 1:00 p.m.
4/9
Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
4/7
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hollinger) Withdrawn
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
4/8
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
Sponsored by:
Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
Delegate James F. Ports, Jr., District 8
Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES -see also- DRUGS
DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANG SUB; DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG.
EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LIC; DRIVERS' LIC
NOTICES
PATIENTS
PHARMACISTS -see also- DRUGS
PHYSICIANS
REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Health Occupations
( 15-101 , 15-301 , 15-302 , 15-302 , 15-302.1 , 15-302.2 , 15-302.3 , 15-307 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
House
Number: 339096/1 (PDF)     Offered on: March 26, 1999   at: 10:37 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Senate
Number: 574620/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 9, 1999   at: 9:40 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
March 27, 1999: Third Reading Passed (115-20)
April 7, 1999: Third Reading Passed (123-10)
Senate
April 8, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)