SB 488 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2916
09/10
SENATE BILL 488
AN ACT relative to the regulation of physician assistants.
SPONSORS: Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Whitley, Dist 15; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Rep. C. McGuire, Merr. 27; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the board of medicine to adopt rules to have the office of professional licensure and certification maintain continuing medical education for those physician assistants that have passed their initial National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants certification but that have chosen not to maintain their certification, and further exempts physician assistants from the provisions of the chapter relative to the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2916
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to the regulation of physician assistants.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subparagraph; Physician Assistants; Rulemaking. Amend RSA 328-D:10, I by inserting after subparagraph l the following new subparagraph:
(m) The office of professional licensure and certification's maintaining of continuing medical education ("CME") for those physician assistants that have passed their initial National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ("NCCPA") certification but that have chosen not to maintain their certification.
2 New Paragraph; Barbering, Cosmetology, and Esthetics; Exemptions. Amend RSA 313-A:25 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
III-a. Physician assistants licensed under RSA 328-D when engaged in the practice of their profession.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.