Allowing licensed professionals to donate time to the care of indigent and needy [HB-2692]
The purpose of this bill is to allow certain actively licensed health care professionals to donate their time to the care of the indigent and the needy under a program currently in place for retired or retiring health care professionals. This bill also amends the program to allow health care professionals to see indigent and needy patients in their own offices or in the clinic setting provided for by the entity coordinating the patient’s care as provided for by this program. This bill also adds new sections of code allow physician assistants, licensed
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HB-2692: Allowing licensed professionals to donate time to the care of indigent and needy
Sponsored by: Rep. Daryl Cowles
Filed For Introduction on 02/24/2017
Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance [HB-2741]
10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to provide for eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance; defining terms; requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to implement work requirements for applicants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); requiring discontinuance of a federal waiver; setting forth what meets work requirements; setting out exceptions to work requirements; providing for a good cause exception; allowing for a federal waiver to meet the requirements of this section; providing
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HB-2741: Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance
Sponsored by: Rep. Saira Blair
Filed For Introduction on 03/01/2017
Relating to modernization of the Physician Assistant Practice Act [HB-2753]
The purpose of this bill is to modernize the practice act for physician assistants. It substitutes “collaborating” for “supervising” and makes a number of conforming amendments. It alters the make-up of the Board of Medicine to include a second physician assistant. It allows physician assistants to prescribe Schedule III drugs in certain circumstances. It eliminates the need for a recertification exam once the physician assistant is board certified. It allows physician assistants to be reimbursed at the same rate as physicians and advance practice
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HB-2753: Relating to modernization of the Physician Assistant Practice Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 03/01/2017