Legislative Updates 2009
April 8, 2009
Legislative Update for the 2009 Georgia General Assembly
Bills that passed:
HB 509 Medical practice act, allows less supervision and more role expansion of the PA, allows the Nurse Practitioner to sign death certificates, makes it illegal for an NP or PA to employ a physician to be their delegating physician.http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/hb509.htm
HB 217 Vaccine protocol bill, allows nurses or pharmacists to transport and administer vaccinations without individual physician orders, delegated by the physician in a protocol agreementhttp://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/hb217.htm
HB 228 to reorganize and reestablish various state health and human services agencies; to reestablish the Department of Community Health; to establish the Department of Human Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilitieshttp://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/hb228.htm
HB 475 Requirements for Nursing Education, also known as "the Excelsior Bill"http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/hb475.htm
SB 8 provides for the possession and self administration of auto-injectable epinephrine by studentshttp://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb8.htm
SB 49 Pharmacist cannot substitute a drug that is an immunosuppressant prescribed to a patient who has received an organ transplanthttp://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb49.htm
SB 104 Cosmetic laser bill http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb104.htm
SB 244 Provides for the performance of health maintenance activities by a designated caregiver http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb244.htm
In preparation for the 2010 session
Please send me your letters for…
"why I need Schedule II drugs to
utilize the new prescribing law passed in 2006 (26.3),
or
"how the new law hinders my ability to practice by not being able to order CT scans or MRIs" to kcschwartz@bellsouth.net
HB 509 BOM opening the medical practice act, current version improves PA language removing lots of restrictions allowing them more independence (MAG opposes) It does allow them to make pronunciation of death, and we will add NPs to this.