KY HB241 | 2011 | Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill 241 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 18 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-03 - returned to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Summary

Create a new section of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 to permit physician assistants to prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs and medical devices as delegated by the supervising physician and to prescribe all legend drugs and Schedules II to V controlled substances; amend KRS 311.840 to make a technical change to define "legend drug"; amend KRS 311.856 to delete the provisions requiring a supervising physician to prohibit a physician assistant from prescribing and dispensing controlled substances and to sign records of service; amend KRS 311.858 to make a technical change to delete the provision that physician assistants may prescribe and administer nonscheduled legend drugs by delegation of the supervising physician; amend KRS 311.860 to change the term "nonseparate location" to "physician's primary location" and to change the required months of on-site supervision of new physician assistant graduates from 18 months to 6 months.

Title

AN ACT relating to physician assistants.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-03		returned to Judiciary (S)
2011-03-03		2nd reading
2011-03-03		taken from Judiciary (S)
2011-03-02		returned to Judiciary (S)
2011-03-02		1st reading
2011-03-02		taken from Judiciary (S)
2011-02-23		floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
2011-02-23		to Judiciary (S)
2011-02-18		received in Senate
2011-02-17		3rd reading, passed 77-21
2011-02-15		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 16, 2011
2011-02-11		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-10		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2011-02-07		posted in committee
2011-02-02		to Health & Welfare (H)
2011-02-01		introduced in House