Professions And Occupations
West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Creating Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act [SB-398]
The purpose of this bill is to create The Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. The bill defines terms and to whom the article applies. The bill regulates the practice of volunteer health practitioners during an emergency and creates a registration system; grants reciprocity to licenses issued to volunteer health practitioners in other states during an emergency. The bill allows for credentialing and privileges of a volunteer health practitioner. The bill provides sanctions for violations. It sets out when the article applies to other
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South Dakota 2017 Regular Session
Exempt natural hair braiding from the practice of cosmetology. [HB-1048]
Exempt natural hair braiding from the practice of cosmetology.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to accreditation of nursing schools [HB-2667]
The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that a school of nursing be accredited by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses and providing a new definition for an “Accredited School” to mean a school accredited by The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Residential rental property. [SB-966]
Residential rental property. Provides that if a residential dwelling unit is foreclosed upon and a tenant is lawfully occupying the dwelling unit at the time of the foreclosure, the foreclosure shall act as a termination of the rental agreement by the landlord. The bill also provides that, if there is in effect at the date of the foreclosure sale a written property management agreement between the landlord and a real estate licensee licensed pursuant to the provisions of § 54.1-2106.1, the foreclosure shall convert the property management agreement
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Drug Control Act; Schedule I. [HB-1610]
Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule. The bill also removes two substances, benzylfentanyl and thienylfentanyl, from Schedule I. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to SB 1546.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating generally to the powers and duties of the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine [HB-2628]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify and strengthen the duties and powers of the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine with regard to evidence of serious misconduct by licensees and applicants for license under their respective jurisdictions.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Nurse practitioner as expert witness; scope of activities. [HB-1609]
Nurse practitioner as expert witness; scope of activities. References the specific Code section outlining the scope of a nurse practitioner's activities in the context of the current provision that authorizes a nurse practitioner to testify as an expert witness within the scope of his activities.
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South Dakota 2017 Regular Session
Require the Board of Pharmacy to report to the Legislature regarding monitoring and use of opioids in the state. [SB-4]
Require the Board of Pharmacy to report to the Legislature regarding monitoring and use of opioids in the state.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine and the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to share staff [HB-2630]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to share staff when efficient and practical to do so.
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South Dakota 2017 Regular Session
Establish a program to assist nursing and assisted living facilities in recruiting certain health care personnel. [HB-1004]
Establish a program to assist nursing and assisted living facilities in recruiting certain health care personnel.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Solicitation of professional employment; person charged with traffic infraction or reckless driving. [HB-1584]
Solicitation of professional employment; person charged with traffic infraction or reckless driving. Provides that it is unlawful for an attorney to solicit professional employment from a person charged with a traffic infraction or reckless driving until 30 days after a summons containing the charge is issued to such person.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to time standards for disposition of complaint proceedings [HB-2631]
The purpose of this bill is to prevent dismissal of complaints that exceed time standards for disposition when the accused causes delay that results in the time overage.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Requiring abortions to be performed by a licensed physician [HB-2595]
The purpose of this bill is to require that any abortion must be performed by a licensed physician.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Duty of care to law-enforcement officers and firefighters; fireman's rule. [HB-1590]
Duty of care to law-enforcement officers and firefighters; fireman's rule. Provides that the common-law doctrine known as the fireman's rule, as described in the bill, shall not be a defense to certain claims. The fireman's rule is based on assumption of the usual risks of injury in such employment, whether caused by a negligent or a nonnegligent act of the defendant.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Professions and occupations; active supervision of regulatory boards, definitions, report. [HB-1566]
Professions and occupations; regulatory boards. Establishes a statewide policy for the regulation of professions and occupations specifying criteria for government regulation with the objective of increasing opportunities, promoting competition, encouraging innovation, protecting consumers, and complying with applicable federal antitrust laws. The bill also establishes the position of professional and occupational regulatory analyst within the Division of Legislative Services to assist the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules in (i) evaluating
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Tennessee 110th General Assembly
As enacted, revises various professional regulatory provisions, including provisions regarding cosmetologists, home inspectors, and engineers. - Amends TCA Title 62. [HB-300]
As enacted, revises various professional regulatory provisions, including provisions regarding cosmetologists, home inspectors, and engineers. - Amends TCA Title 62.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act [HB-2554]
The purpose of this bill is to transfer the West Virginia Contractor Act from administration and regulation by the Division of Labor to regulation under the provisions of professions and occupations in chapter thirty of this code. The bill retains the short title and declaration of policy with definitions of the existing act. It continues the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Board, composition, terms, qualifications and appointment, together with administrative duties of board and legislative rules, without the Division of Labor. The bill retains
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Real estate appraisers; exemptions from licensure. [HB-1556]
Real Estate Appraiser Board; evaluations. Allows a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser to provide an evaluation of real estate or real property in connection with certain real estate-related financial transactions. This bill is identical to SB 1535.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Advance directives; admission of person for mental health treatment, capacity determinations. [HB-1548]
Advance directives; mental health treatment; capacity determinations. Provides that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent to the person's admission to a facility for mental health treatment and the advance directive so authorizes, the person's agent may exercise such authority after a determination that the person is incapable of making an informed decision regarding such admission has been made by (i) the attending physician, (ii) a psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist,
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
DPOR and DHP; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting. [SB-922]
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Department of Health Professions; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting. Provides that certain powers of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, and health regulatory boards and certain requirements of persons regulated by such entities apply, inclusively, to permits as well as licenses, certifications, and registrations and to holders of permits as well as holders of such licenses, certifications, and registrations.