ORIGINAL HOUSE ENGROSSED
BILL NO. 0208
ENROLLED ACT NO.
113, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FIFTY-SIXTH
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2001
GENERAL SESSION
AN ACT relating to physician
assistants; expanding
membership on the
board of medicine to include a physician
assistant;
conforming provisions; expanding the scope of
practice of
physician assistants as specified; and
providing for an
effective date.
Be It Enacted
by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 33-26-201(a), (c) and (e), 33-26-502
by creating a new subsection (c) and by renumbering (c) as
(d) and 33-26-510(c) are amended to read:
33-26-201. State board of medicine; composition;
appointment;
terms; qualifications; removal; vacancies;
quorum.
(a) The Wyoming
state board of medicine shall consist
of five (5) physicians
licensed to practice medicine in
Wyoming, one (1) of
whom shall possess the degree of doctor
of osteopathy, one (1) physician assistant and two (2)
nonphysician members
not directly related to physicians,
appointed by the
governor by and with the consent of the
senate as required by
W.S. 28-12-101 through 28-12-103.
Board members
appointed by the governor shall serve at the
pleasure of the
governor. The board members shall annually
elect a president and
a vice-president.
(c) Physician and physician assistant members shall
reside in and practice
medicine in this state, and
nonphysician members
shall reside in this state.
(e) A quorum of
the board consists of five (5) six
(6) board
members and shall have a nonphysician member
present.
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33-26-502. Scope of W.S. 33-26-501
through 33-26-511.
(c) Physician assistants are health care providers
and shall be
considered health care providers for all
provisions of
state law. Physician assistants shall be
considered
agents of their supervising physician in the
performance of
all practice related activities, including,
but not
limited to, the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic
and other
medical services.
(c)(d) Nothing in this article
shall be construed to
conflict with or alter
the provisions and requirements of
W.S. 33-26-101 through
33-26-410.
33-26-510. Prescription of drugs.
(c) A physician
assistant may prescribe medications
only as an agent of
the supervising physician. A physician
assistant shall not may
prescribe schedule I and schedule
II through schedule V drugs as defined by W.S. 35-7-1013
35-7-1016 35-7-1022. The supervising
physician may delegate
authority to the physician assistant
to dispense
prepackaged medications in rural clinics when
pharmacy services are
not physically available. The board
shall, after
consultation with the state board of pharmacy,
promulgate rules and
regulations governing the prescription
of medications by a
physician assistant.
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Section 2. This
act is effective July 1, 2001.
(END)
Speaker of
the House President of
the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the
House.
Chief Clerk
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