Nevada Senate Bill 271 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-04-24 - (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.2, no further action allowed.)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

AN ACT relating to professions; authorizing a physician assistant to provide emergency care in certain emergency situations without the supervision of a physician or osteopathic physician; authorizing a physician to refuse to act as a supervising physician; prohibiting a supervising physician or supervising osteopathic physician from supervising more than 10 physician assistants at the same time; authorizing a supervising physician to supervise a physician assistant in person, electronically, telephonically or by fiber optics; providing that a person may be simultaneously licensed as a physician assistant by the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; requiring a supervising physician and supervising osteopathic physician to review and initial charts of patients of certain physician assistants; authorizing the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to adopt certain regulations; adding a physician assistant as a voting member to the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; providing that a license as a physician assistant is valid for 2 years; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Revises provisions relating to physician assistants. (BDR 54-522)

Sen. Joseph Hardy [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-24	Senate	(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.2, no further action allowed.)
2019-03-14	Senate	From printer. To committee.
2019-03-13	Senate	Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6467/Overview
Text	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB271.pdf