HB 413  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0579

04/08

 

HOUSE BILL 413

 

AN ACT authorizing advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to prescribe diabetic shoes.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes advanced practice nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe diabetic shoes.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0579

04/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT authorizing advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to prescribe diabetic shoes.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph: Nurse Practice Act; Scope of Practice; Prescription of Diabetic Shoes.  Amend RSA 326-B:11 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

III-a.  An APRN shall have the authority to prescribe diabetic shoes.

2  New Paragraph; Physician Assistant; Scope of Practice; Prescription of Diabetic Shoes.  Amend RSA 328-D:3-b by inserting after paragraph XVI the following new paragraph:

XVI-a.  A physician assistant shall have the authority to prescribe diabetic shoes.  

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.