South Carolina House Bill 3579

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-03-26 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Sanders
Pending: House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 40-47-937 So As To Provide Physician Assistants Who Meet Certain Postgraduate Clinical Experience And Practice Experience May Practice Pursuant Only To An Attestation Statement, And To Provide For The Functions, Locations, And Collaboration Requirements Allowed Under These Practice Arrangements; By Adding Section 40-47-939 So As To Provide That Certain Physician Assistants Licensed In Other Jurisdictions May Provide Emergency Care In This State Under Certain Circumstances, And To Limit Their Liability For Providing Such Care; By Amending Section 40-47-10, Relating To The State Board Of Medical Examiners, So As To Revise The Composition Of The Board To Include Two Physician Assistants, To Provide For Their Manner Of Appointment And The Filling Of Vacancies, And To Limit Their Terms Of Service; By Amending Section 40-47-20, Relating To Definitions Concerning The Medical Practice Act, So As To Revise Various Definitions; By Amending Section 40-47-113, Relating To Requirements Concerning Physician-patient Relationships And The Prescribing Of Drugs, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 40-47-195, Relating To Supervising Physicians And Scope Of Practice Guidelines, So As To Remove Certain Limitations Imposed On Supervising Physicians; By Amending Section 40-47-196, Relating To The Delegation Of Tasks To Certified Medical Assistants, So As To Make Technical Changes; By Amending Section 40-47-910, Relating To Definitions In The South Carolina Physician Assistants Practice Act, So As To Revise Necessary Definitions; By Amending Section 40-47-915, Relating To The Application Of The South Carolina Physician Assistants Practice Act, So As To Revise Requirements Concerning Physician Assistants Students; By Amending Section 40-47-935, Relating To Acts And Duties Authorized To Be Performed By Physician Assistants, So As To Clarify And Expand The Authorized Acts And Duties; By Amending Section 40-47-965, Relating To Requirements For Writing Prescriptions For Drugs, Controlled Substances, And Medical Devices By Physician Assistants, So As To Revise The Requirements; By Amending Section 40-47-1000, Relating To The Unlawful Holding Of Oneself Out As A Physician Assistant, So As To Provide For The Lawful And Unlawful Use Of Certain Abbreviations Indicative Of Licensure As A Physician Assistant; By Amending Section 40-47-1005, Relating To Misconduct Mandating Revocation Or Denial Of A Physician Assistant License, So As To Specifically Authorize The Board To Discipline Physician Assistants For Misconduct, To Revise The Bases For Misconduct, And To Provide Remedies Available To The Board Upon Finding Misconduct; By Amending Section 40-47-1020, Relating To Third-party Reimbursement To Physician Assistants, So As To Make Such Payments Mandatory In Certain Circumstances, And To Provide Insurance Companies And Third-party Payers May Not Impose More Restrictive Or Contradictory Practice, Education, Or Collaboration Requirements; By Amending Section 44-80-120, Relating To The Authority Of Physician Assistants To Create, Execute, And Sign Post Forms, So As To Remove Obsolete Scope Of Practice And Supervising Physician Requirements; By Amending Section 44-99-10, Relating To Definitions Concerning Emergency Anaphylaxis Treatments, So As To Remove Obsolete Language; By Amending Section 59-63-75, Relating To Concussion Protocol For Student Athletes, So As To Include Physician Assistants Among Persons Authorized To Remove Student Athletes Suspected Of Having Sustained A Concussion From Competition, And To Remove Obsolete Language; And By Amending Section 59-63-95, Relating To The Prescription Of Lifesaving Medications To Be Maintained And Used By Public Schools, So As To Make Conforming Changes.

Physician assistants

Rep. Marvin Smith [R]	Rep. Jackie Terribile [R]	Rep. Christopher Murphy [R]	Rep. Weston Newton [R]
Rep. Blake Sanders [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-26	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Sanders
2025-01-28	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: W.Newton
2025-01-14	House	Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs
2025-01-14	House	Introduced and read first time
2024-12-12	House	Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs
2024-12-12	House	Prefiled

S0044 (Similar To) 2025-01-14 - Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	47	10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	1000	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	1005	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	1020	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	113	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	195	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	196	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	20	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	910	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	915	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	935	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	937	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	939	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	47	965	(n/a)	See Bill Text
44	80	120	(n/a)	See Bill Text
44	99	10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	63	75	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	63	95	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3579&session=126&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3579_20241212.htm