Senate Bill sb1690

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1690

    By Senator Saunders





    37-1045-06                                          See HB 859

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to physician assistants;

  3         amending ss. 458.331 and 459.015, F.S.; placing

  4         a physician assistant on probable cause panels

  5         of the Board of Medicine and the Board of

  6         Osteopathic Medicine considering discipline of

  7         physician assistants; amending ss. 458.347 and

  8         459.022, F.S.; authorizing the preparation of

  9         certain medical charts and records without the

10         cosignature of a licensed physician; providing

11         an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 458.331, Florida

16  Statutes, is amended to read:

17         458.331  Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the

18  board and department.--

19         (2)  The board may enter an order denying licensure or

20  imposing any of the penalties in s. 456.072(2) against any

21  applicant for licensure or licensee who is found guilty of

22  violating any provision of subsection (1) of this section or

23  who is found guilty of violating any provision of s.

24  456.072(1). A probable cause panel considering disciplinary

25  action against a physician assistant under s. 456.073 must

26  include a licensed physician assistant designated by the

27  Council on Physician Assistants unless a physician assistant

28  is not available. In determining what action is appropriate,

29  the board must first consider what sanctions are necessary to

30  protect the public or to compensate the patient. Only after

31  those sanctions have been imposed may the disciplining

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1690
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 1  authority consider and include in the order requirements

 2  designed to rehabilitate the physician. All costs associated

 3  with compliance with orders issued under this subsection are

 4  the obligation of the physician.

 5         Section 2.  Paragraph (g) is added to subsection (4) of

 6  section 458.347, Florida Statutes, to read:

 7         458.347  Physician assistants.--

 8         (4)  PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.--

 9         (g)  The medical charts and records prepared by a

10  physician assistant who is under the supervision of a licensed

11  physician on the business premises do not require cosignature

12  by the licensed physician.

13         Section 3.  Subsection (2) of section 459.015, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         459.015  Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the

16  board and department.--

17         (2)  The board may enter an order denying licensure or

18  imposing any of the penalties in s. 456.072(2) against any

19  applicant for licensure or licensee who is found guilty of

20  violating any provision of subsection (1) of this section or

21  who is found guilty of violating any provision of s.

22  456.072(1). A probable cause panel considering disciplinary

23  action against a physician assistant under s. 456.073 must

24  include a licensed physician assistant designated by the

25  Council on Physician Assistants unless a physician assistant

26  is not available. In determining what action is appropriate,

27  the board must first consider what sanctions are necessary to

28  protect the public or to compensate the patient. Only after

29  those sanctions have been imposed may the disciplining

30  authority consider and include in the order requirements

31  designed to rehabilitate the physician. All costs associated

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1690
    37-1045-06                                          See HB 859




 1  with compliance with orders issued under this subsection are

 2  the obligation of the physician.

 3         Section 4.  Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (4) of

 4  section 459.022, Florida Statutes, to read:

 5         459.022  Physician assistants.--

 6         (4)  PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.--

 7         (f)  The medical charts and records prepared by a

 8  physician assistant who is under the supervision of a licensed

 9  physician on the business premises do not require cosignature

10  by the licensed physician.

11         Section 5.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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