Bill Text: IA HF232 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to pronouncements of death by registered nurses and physician assistants. (Formerly HSB 19.) Effective 7-1-17.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-21 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1142. [HF232 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF232-Enrolled.html

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House File 232 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                  RESOURCES

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 19)
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                                         House File 232

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO PRONOUNCEMENTS OF DEATH BY REGISTERED NURSES
    AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 152.1, subsection 7, paragraph e, Code
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
    e.  Make the pronouncement of death for a patient whose death
 is anticipated if the death occurs in a licensed hospital,
 a licensed health care facility, a correctional institution
 listed in section 904.102, a Medicare=certified home health
 agency, a Medicare=certified hospice program or facility, an
 assisted living facility, or a residential care facility, with
 notice of the death to a physician, advanced registered nurse
 practitioner, or physician assistant.
    Sec. 2.  Section 148C.4, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended
 to read as follows:
    1.  A physician assistant may perform medical services
 when the services are rendered under the supervision of a
 physician. A physician assistant student may perform medical
 services when the services are rendered within the scope of an
 approved program. For the purposes of this section, "medical
 services when the services are rendered under the supervision
 of a physician" includes making a pronouncement of death for
 a patient whose death is anticipated if the death occurs
 in a licensed hospital, a licensed health care facility,
 a correctional institution listed in section 904.102, a
 Medicare=certified home health agency, or a Medicare=certified
 hospice program or facility, with notice of the death to a
 physician and in accordance with the directions of a physician.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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