Bill Text: IA HF591 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to physician supervision of physician assistants, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 189.) Effective 4-12-17.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-12 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1008. [HF591 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF591-Enrolled.html

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House File 591 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                  RESOURCES

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HF 189)
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                                         House File 591

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION OF PHYSICIAN
    ASSISTANTS, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE AND RETROACTIVE
    APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  148C.5  Supervising physicians ==
 board of medicine == rulemaking requirements.
    1.  If the board commences a contested case hearing against
 a physician assistant by delivering a statement of charges
 and notice of hearing to the physician assistant, the board
 shall deliver a copy of the statement of charges and notice of
 hearing to the physician assistant's supervising physician.
    2.  The board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to
 establish specific procedures for consulting with and sharing
 information with the board of medicine regarding complaints
 that a physician assistant may have been inadequately
 supervised by the physician assistant's supervising physician.
    3.  The board shall not amend or rescind any of the following
 rules unless, prior to the submission of such an amendment or
 rescission to the administrative rules coordinator, the board
 consults with and receives approval from the board of medicine
 to make such a submission:
    a.  645 IAC 326.1 regarding the following terms:
    (1)  "Physician".
    (2)  "Physician assistant".
    (3)  "Supervising physician".
    (4)  "Supervision".
    b.  645 IAC 326.2(1)(f).
    c.  645 IAC 326.4(6).
    d.  645 IAC 326.8.
    e.  645 IAC 326.19(3)(b)(3).
    f.  645 IAC 327.1(1)(s)(1)=(4).
    g.  645 IAC 327.1(1)(u).
    h.  645 IAC 327.1(1)(z).
    i.  645 IAC 327.4(1)(b)(2)=(4).
    j.  645 IAC 327.4(2).
    k.  645 IAC 327.6(1)(d).
    Sec. 2.  REPEAL.  2015 Iowa Acts, chapter 137, section 113,
 is repealed.
    Sec. 3.  PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT SUPERVISION RULEMAKING ACTIONS.
    1.  The board of physician assistants shall take no further
 action relating to ARC 2832C.  ARC 2832C is terminated as of
 the effective date of this Act.
    2.  a.  The amendments to 653 Iowa administrative code, rules
 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, and 21.8; and 653 Iowa administrative
 code, chapter 21, implementation sentence, as appearing in ARC
 2532C, as published in the Iowa administrative bulletin, volume
 XXXVIII, number 23, dated May 11, 2016, pp. 2190=2193, are
 rescinded.
    b.  As soon as practicable, the Iowa administrative code
 editor shall restore the language of the Iowa administrative
 code referenced in paragraph "a" of this subsection to the
 language that existed on May 10, 2016.
    Sec. 4.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  The section of this Act
 repealing 2015 Iowa Acts, chapter 137, section 113, applies
 retroactively to July 1, 2015.
    Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate
 importance, shall be effective upon enactment.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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