1E Relating to occupations and professions; providing for physician assistant licensure; modifying the definition of physician assistant; eliminating the term registered physician assistants and replacing it with licensed physicians assistants; eliminating and modifying certain terms; establishing a physician-physician assistant delegation agreement; creating a notice of intent to practice that documents the adoption of a physician-physician assistant delegation agreement; clarifying qualifications for licensure; establishing a temporary license and clarifying an inactive license; modifying physician's assistant scope of practice and delegated duties; limiting time for disciplinary action against a physicians assistant; modifying delegated authority of physicians assistant to prescribe, dispense and administer drugs, controlled substances and medical devices; clarifying physician assistant response to a disaster situation; modifying certain continuing education requirements; modifying membership and duties of physicians assistant advisory council; repealing locum tenens permit granting authority to physicians assistants by the board of medical practice
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