HB0208 - Physician assistants.
2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0470 |
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0208
Physician assistants.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Iekel, Meyer, Miller, D.
and Simons and
Senator(s) Scott
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to
physician assistants; expanding
2 membership
on the board of medicine to include a physician
3
assistant; conforming provisions; expanding the scope of
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practice of physician assistants as specified; and
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providing for an effective date.
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7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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9 Section
1. W.S. 33-26-201(a), (c) and (e), 33-26-502
10 by creating a new subsection (c) and
by renumbering (c) as
11 (d) and 33-26-510(c) are amended to
read:
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13 33-26-201. State board of medicine;
composition;
14 appointment; terms; qualifications; removal; vacancies;
15 quorum.
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1 (a) The Wyoming
state board of medicine shall consist
2 of
five (5) physicians licensed to practice medicine in
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Wyoming, one (1) of whom shall possess the degree of doctor
4 of
osteopathy, one (1) physician assistant
and two (2)
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nonphysician members not directly related to physicians,
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appointed by the governor by and with the consent of the
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senate as required by W.S. 28-12-101 through 28-12-103.
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Board members appointed by the governor shall serve at the
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pleasure of the governor. The board members shall annually
10 elect a president and a vice-president.
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12 (c) Physician and physician assistant members shall
13 reside in and practice medicine in this
state, and
14 nonphysician members shall reside in this
state.
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16 (e) A quorum of
the board consists of five (5) six
17 (6)
board members and shall have a nonphysician member
18 present.
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20 33-26-502. Scope of W.S. 33-26-501 through 33-26-511.
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22 (c) Physician
assistants are health care givers and
23 shall be considered as such for all provisions of state
24 law. Physician assistants shall be considered agents of
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1 their supervising
physician in the performance of all
2 practice related activities, including, but not limited to,
3 the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic and other medical
4 services.
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6 (c)(d) Nothing in
this article shall be construed to
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conflict with or alter the provisions and requirements of
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W.S. 33-26-101 through 33-26-410.
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10 33-26-510. Prescription of drugs.
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12 (c) A physician
assistant may prescribe medications
13 only as an agent of the supervising
physician. A physician
14 assistant shall
not may prescribe schedule I and schedule
15 II through
schedule V drugs as defined by W.S. 35-7-1013
16 through 35-7-1016. The supervising physician
may delegate
17 authority to the physician assistant to
dispense
18 prepackaged medications in rural clinics
when pharmacy
19 services are not physically available. The
board shall,
20 after consultation with the state board of
pharmacy,
21 promulgate rules and regulations governing
the prescription
22 of medications by a physician assistant.
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1 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2001.
2
3 (END)
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