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HB 137 (BR 210) - J. Stacy, R. Adkins, J. Glenn, S. Overly, R. Palumbo, D. Watkins
AN ACT relating to the licensure of health care professionals who use radiation for imaging and therapy and making an appropriation therefor.
Create KRS Chapter 311B, a new chapter relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists; establish legislative policy favoring regulation by a licensing board; define terms; create the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to license and regulate advanced practice professionals, medical imaging technologists, radiographers, radiation therapists, nuclear medicine technologists, and limited X-ray machine operators; set up board membership, meeting, and other procedural requirements; establish board powers and duties generally, including promulgating administrative regulations to administer and enforce the chapter, setting licensing requirements, and hiring an executive director and other board administrative staff; set minimum qualifications and powers of the executive director; require the board to recognize and enforce the standards of the national organizations for the medical imaging and radiation therapy professions; forbid practice of the regulated professions without a license from the board; exempt practitioners of the healing arts, students, and federal government employees from the chapter; list those professions requiring a license from the board; authorize the board to establish the qualifications for acquiring and maintaining licensure, with the power to identify other specialties or categories of duties consistent with KRS Chapter 311B; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set licensing fees; establish a trust and agency fund from licensing and other fees for use by the board; waive fees and set special procedures for licensees serving in the United States Armed Forces; permit claiming to be a licensee, employing an imaging or radiation professional, or manipulating ionizing radiation equipment or administering radiopharmaceuticals only if the person is licensed under the chapter; require any person to alert the board when a licensee has committed certain acts or has become unfit or incompetent to practice; list reasons the board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license; describe procedures for administrative hearings for licensee discipline; define conditions for instituting civil penalties; authorize the board to set reasonable fines through the promulgation of administrative regulations; repeal KRS 211.870, 211.890, and 211.993; set procedures for initial board appointments.
HB 137 - AMENDMENTS
HCS - Retain original provisions of the bill except to replace the term "advanced practice professional" with the term "advanced imaging professional"; add protection to health care practitioners or providers licensed in other professions from the provisions of this bill; delete denial, revocation, or suspension of a license for defaulting on a student loan.
HFA (1, J. Stacy) - Retain original provisions, except replace each instance of the term “advanced practice professional” with “advanced imaging professional” instead; make any licensed health care practitioner or provider who is working within the license for that person's profession, training, or services exempt from KRS Chapter 311B or any related administrative regulations; delete provision relating to defaulting on a student loan.
(Prefiled by the sponsor(s).)
Jan 3-introduced in House; to Health & Welfare (H)
Jan 17-posted in committee
Feb 10-floor amendment (1) filed
Feb 16-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
Feb 21-2nd reading, to Rules
Feb 22-posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2012
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